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While manual segmentation is time consuming, tedious, and subjective, it is very challenging to develop automatic segmentation methods. Deep learning with convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture has consistently outperformed previous methods on such challenging tasks. However, the local dependencies of pixel classes cannot be fully reflected in the CNN models. In contrast, hand-crafted features such as histogram-based texture features provide robust feature descriptors of local pixel dependencies. In this paper, a classification-based method for automatic brain tumour tissue segmentation is proposed using combined CNN-based and hand-crafted features. The CIFAR network is modified to extract CNN-based features, and histogram-based texture features are fused to compensate the limitation in the CIFAR network. These features together with the pixel intensities of the original MRI images are sent to a decision tree for classifying the MRI image voxels into different types of tumour tissues. The method is evaluated on the BraTS 2017 dataset. 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