Brain Tumour Classification Model Based on Spatial Block–Residual Block Collaborative Architecture with Strip Pooling Feature Fusion

Precise classification of brain tumors is crucial for early diagnosis and treatment, but obtaining tumor masks is extremely challenging, limiting the application of traditional methods. This paper proposes a brain tumor classification model based on whole-brain images, combining a spatial block-residual block cooperative architecture with striped pooling feature fusion to achieve multi-scale feature representation without requiring tumor masks. The model extracts fine-grained morphological features through three shallow VGG spatial blocks while capturing global contextual information between tumors and surrounding tissues via four deep ResNet residual blocks. Residual connections mitigate gradient vanishing. To effectively fuse multi-level features, strip pooling modules are introduced after the third spatial block and fourth residual block, enabling cross-layer feature integration-particularly optimizing representation of irregular tumor regions. The fused features undergo cross-scale concatenation, integrating both spatial perception and semantic information, and are ultimately classified via an end-to-end Softmax classifier. Experimental results demonstrate that the model achieves an accuracy of 97.29% in brain tumor image classification tasks, significantly outperforming traditional convolutional neural networks. This validates its effectiveness in achieving high-precision, multi-scale feature learning and classification without brain tumor masks, holding potential clinical application value.