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Based on the characteristics of different subpathological lung nodules expressed from LDCT images, we propose a multi-dimension and multi-feature hybrid learning neural network in this paper. Our network consists of a 2D network part and a 3D network part. The feature vectors extracted from the 2D network and 3D network are further learned by XGBoost. Through this formation, the network can better integrate the feature information from the 2D and 3D networks. The main learning block of the network is a residual block combined with attention mechanism. This learning block enables the network to learn better from multiple features and pay more attention to the key feature map among all the feature maps in different channels. We conduct experiments on our dataset collected from a cooperating hospital. 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