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In this study, we evaluated the capability to classify common gastritis subtypes using convolutional neuronal networks on a small dataset of antrum and corpus biopsies. Methods: 1230 representative 500 \u00d7 500 \u00b5m images of 135 patients with type A, type B, and type C gastritis were extracted from scanned histological slides. Patients were allocated randomly into a training set (60%), a validation set (20%), and a test set (20%). One classifier for antrum and one classifier for corpus were trained and optimized. After optimization, the test set was analyzed using a joint result from both classifiers. Results: Overall accuracy in the test set was 84% and was particularly high for type B gastritis with a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 93%. Conclusions: Classification of gastritis subtypes is possible using convolutional neural networks on a small dataset of histopathological images of antrum and corpus biopsies. 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