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The main method of acquiring brain tumors in the clinic is MRI. Segmentation of brain tumor regions from multi-modal MRI scan images is helpful for treatment inspection, post-diagnosis monitoring, and effect evaluation of patients. However, the common operation in clinical brain tumor segmentation is still manual segmentation, lead to its time-consuming and large performance difference between different operators, a consistent and accurate automatic segmentation method is urgently needed. With the continuous development of deep learning, researchers have designed many automatic segmentation algorithms; however, there are still some problems: (1) The research of segmentation algorithm mostly stays on the 2D plane, this will reduce the accuracy of 3D image feature extraction to a certain extent. 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