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According to the Global Cancer Observatory, approximately two million people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year, and an accurate diagnosis requires a significant amount of time and a highly qualified pathologist to decrease the high mortality rate. Recent development of artificial intelligence technologies and scanning microscopy introduced digital pathology into the field of cancer diagnosis by means of the whole-slide image (WSI). In this work, we applied deep learning methods to diagnose six types of colon mucosal lesions using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). As a result, an algorithm for the automatic segmentation of WSIs of colon biopsies was developed, implementing pre-trained, deep convolutional neural networks of the ResNet and EfficientNet architectures. We compared the classical method and one-cycle policy for CNN training and applied both multi-class and multi-label approaches to solve the classification problem. 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