Multi-modal medical images can provide clinicians with rich information of target areas （such as tumors， organs or tissues）. However， effective fusion and segmentation of multi-modal images is still a challenging problem due to the independence and complementarity of multi-modal images. Traditional image fusion methods have difficulty in addressing this problem， leading to widespread research on deep learning-based multi-modal medical image segmentation algorithms. The multi-modal medical image segmentation task based on deep learning was reviewed in terms of principles， techniques， problems， and prospects. Firstly， the general theory of deep learning and multi-modal medical image segmentation was introduced， including the basic principles and development processes of deep learning and Convolutional Neural Network （CNN）， as well as the importance of the multi-modal medical image segmentation task. Secondly， the key concepts of multi-modal medical image segmentation was described， including data dimension， preprocessing， data enhancement， loss function， and post-processing， etc. Thirdly， different multi-modal segmentation networks based on different fusion strategies were summarized and analyzed. Finally， several common problems in medical image segmentation were discussed， the summary and prospects for future research were given.