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MR imaging data and molecular information were retrospectively obtained from The Cancer Imaging Archives for 259 patients with either low- or high-grade gliomas. A convolutional neural network was trained to classify IDH1 mutation status, 1p/19q codeletion, and MGMT promotor methylation status. Classification had high accuracy: IDH1 mutation status, 94%; 1p/19q codeletion, 92%; and MGMT promotor methylation status, 83%. The authors conclude that this shows the feasibility of a deep-learning CNN approach for the accurate classification of individual genetic mutations of both low- and high-grade gliomas and that the relevant MR imaging features acquired from an added dimensionality-reduction technique are concordant with existing literature, showing that neural networks are capable of learning key imaging components without prior feature selection or human directed training.