In this paper, by excluding some sets from the Brauer-type eigenvalue inclusion sets for tensors developed by Bu et al. (Linear Algebra Appl. 512 (2017) 234-248) and Li et al. (Linear and Multilinear Algebra 64 (2016) 727-736), some improved Brauer-type eigenvalue localization sets for tensors are given, which are proved to be much tighter than those put forward by Bu et al. and Li et al. As applications, some new criteria for identifying the nonsingularity of tensors are developed, which are better than some previous results. This fact is illustrated by some numerical examples