1. Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM, IMRB, F-94010, Créteil, France

    Julien Calderaro, Pascale Maille, Loetitia Favre, Anaïs Pujals, Jérémy Augustin, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky & Stefano Caruso

  2. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Créteil, France

    Julien Calderaro, Pascale Maille, Loetitia Favre, Anaïs Pujals, Jérémy Augustin & Stefano Caruso

  3. Inserm, U955, Team 18, Créteil, France

    Julien Calderaro, Pascale Maille, Loetitia Favre, Anaïs Pujals, Augustin Chatain, Delphine Gastineau, Jérémy Augustin, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky & Stefano Caruso

  4. European Reference Network (ERN) RARE-LIVER, Créteil, France

    Julien Calderaro

  5. Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Narmin Ghaffari Laleh & Jakob Nikolas Kather

  6. Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, RWTH Aachen university, Aachen, Germany

    Narmin Ghaffari Laleh

  7. Centre d’Histologie, d’Imagerie et de Cytométrie (CHIC), Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France

    Qinghe Zeng & Christophe Klein

  8. Laboratoire d’Informatique Paris Descartes (LIPADE), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

    Qinghe Zeng & Nicolas Loménie

  9. INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

    Christophe Klein

  10. Caen University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Caen, France

    Céline Bazille

  11. Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Lara R. Heij, Jan Bednarsch & Catherine Guettier

  12. Institute of Pathology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Lara R. Heij

  13. CHRU Brest, Department of Pathology, Brest, 29220, France

    Arnaud Uguen

  14. Univ Brest, Inserm, CHU de Brest, LBAI, UMR1227, Brest, France

    Arnaud Uguen

  15. Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Tom Luedde

  16. Department of Pathology, Humanitas University, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

    Luca Di Tommaso

  17. Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Beaujon University Hospital, Department of Pathology, F-92110, Clichy, France

    Aurélie Beaufrère & Valérie Paradis

  18. Université de Paris, Inflammation Research Center, Inserm, U1149, CNRS, ERL8252, F-75018, Paris, France

    Aurélie Beaufrère & Valérie Paradis

  19. Department of Pathology, E Hospital, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Cong Trung Nguyen

  20. Pathology Center, Bachmai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Hiep Nguyen-Canh

  21. Department of Human Pathology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

    Hiep Nguyen-Canh & Kenichi Harada

  22. Pathology and Molecular biology Center, National Cancer Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Khuyen Nguyen Thi

  23. University Lille, UMR9020-U1277, Cancer Heterogeneity Plasticity and Resistance to Therapies, Lille, France

    Viviane Gnemmi

  24. CHU Lille, Institute of Pathology, Lille, France

    Viviane Gnemmi

  25. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA

    Rondell P. Graham

  26. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Paris, France

    Frédéric Charlotte

  27. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Saint-Antoine University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Paris, France

    Dominique Wendum

  28. Department of Pathology, Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India

    Mukul Vij

  29. Department of Hepatobiliary Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Daniela S. Allende

  30. Robert J. Tomsich Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, L25, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Daniela S. Allende

  31. Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Federico Aucejo

  32. Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Group, Department of Pathology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Alba Diaz

  33. Department of Pathology, Gui-de-Chauliac University Hospital, 80, avenue Augustin-Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France

    Benjamin Rivière

  34. Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Gui-de-Chauliac University Hospital, 80, avenue Augustin-Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France

    Astrid Herrero

  35. Institute of Pathology, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee 11, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Katja Evert & Diego Francesco Calvisi

  36. Department of Anatomical Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

    Wei Qiang Leow

  37. Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Howard Ho Wai Leung & Anthony Wing-Hung Cha

  38. CHU Lille, Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Lille, France

    Emmanuel Boleslawski

  39. Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India

    Mohamed Rela

  40. Rouen University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Rouen, France

    Arnaud François

  41. Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC), Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBEREHD, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Alejandro Forner & Maria Reig

  42. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Department of Hepatology, Paris, France

    Manon Allaire

  43. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Paris, France

    Olivier Scatton

  44. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Amiens, Département de Pathologie, Amiens, France

    Denis Chatelain

  45. Reims University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Reims, France

    Camille Boulagnon-Rombi

  46. Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Grenoble, France

    Nathalie Sturm

  47. Translational Innovation in Medicine and Complexity, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR5525, La Tronche, France

    Nathalie Sturm

  48. Caen University Hospital, Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Caen, France

    Benjamin Menahem

  49. Poitiers University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Poitiers, France

    Eric Frouin

  50. LITEC, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

    Eric Frouin

  51. Poitiers University Hospital, Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Oncology, Poitiers, France

    David Tougeron

  52. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier University Hospital, Department of Medical Oncology, Créteil, France

    Christophe Tournigand & Emmanuelle Kempf

  53. Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Haeryoung Kim

  54. CHU Lille, Department of Hepatology, Lille, France

    Massih Ningarhari

  55. Angers University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Angers, France

    Sophie Michalak-Provost

  56. Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Purva Gopal

  57. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Henri Mondor University Hospital, Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Créteil, France

    Raffaele Brustia & Alexis Laurent

  58. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul Brousse University Hospital, Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Paris, France

    Eric Vibert & Jean-Michel Pawlotsky

  59. Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Kornelius Schulze & Darius F. Rüther

  60. Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Sören A. Weidemann

  61. Reims University Hospital, Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Reims, France

    Rami Rhaiem

  62. Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Xuchen Zhang

  63. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Henri Mondor University Hospital, Department of Medical Imaging, Créteil, France

    Alain Luciani & Sébastien Mulé

  64. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Henri Mondor University Hospital, Department of Hepatology, Créteil, France

    Giuliana Amaddeo & Hélène Regnault

  65. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul Brousse University Hospital, Department of Hepatology, Paris, France

    Eleonora De Martin

  66. Institute of Pathology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christine Sempoux

  67. Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA

    Pooja Navale

  68. Department of Pathology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Maria Westerhoff

  69. Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, China

    Regina Cheuk-Lam Lo

  70. State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, (The University of Hong Kong), Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, China

    Regina Cheuk-Lam Lo

  71. Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

    Annette Gouw & Catherine Guettier

  72. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul Brousse University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Villejuif, France

    Catherine Guettier

  73. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Saint Antoine University Hospital, Department of Hepatology, Paris, France

    Marie Lequoy

  74. Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand

    Pimsiri Sripongpun & Apichat Kaewdech

  75. Prince of Songkla University, Department of Pathology, Hat Yai, Thailand

    Poowadon Wetwittayaklang & Jarukit Tantipisit

  76. Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, Stanford University, 1701 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Jeanne Shen

  77. Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Jeanne Shen

  78. Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Jakob Nikolas Kather

J.C., S.C. and J.N.K. conceptualized the study. N.G.L and Q.Z. developed the software. J.C., N.G.L., S.C., Q.Z. and J.N.K. had full access to the raw data, performed the analysis, evaluated the results and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. P.M., L.F., A.P., C.K., C.B., L.R.H., A.U., T.L., L.D.T., A.B., A.C., D.G., C.T.N., H.N.-C., K.N.T., V.G., R.P.G., F.C., D.W., M.V., D.S.A., F.A., A.D., B.R., A.H., K.E., D.F.C., J.A., W.Q.L., H.H.W.L., E.B., M.R.e.l., A.F., A.W.-C.H.C., A.F., M.R.e.i., M.A., O.S., D.C., C.B.-R., N.S., B.M., E.F., D.T., C.T., E.K., H.K., M.N., S.M.P., P.G., R.B., E.V., K.S., D.F.R., S.A.W., R.R., J.M.P., X.Z., A.Lu., S.M., A.La., G.A., H.R., E.D.M., C.S., P.N., M.W., R.C.L.L., J.B., A.G., C.G., M.L., K.H., P.S., P.W.W., N.L., J.T., A.K., J.S., V.P. and S.C. contributed samples, contributed to the interpretation of the results and contributed to writing the final version of the manuscript.