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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2023

A robust and light-weight transfer learning-based architecture for accurate detection of leaf diseases across multiple plants using less amount of images.

Md Khairul Alam Mazumder, M F Mridha, Sultan Alfarhood, Mejdl Safran, Md Abdullah-Al-Jubair, Dunren Che

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Breeding for Plant Disease Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Md Khairul Alam MazumderDepartment of Computer Science, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
M F MridhaDepartment of Computer Science, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sultan AlfarhoodDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mejdl SafranDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Md Abdullah-Al-JubairDepartment of Computer Science, American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dunren CheSchool of Computing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, United States.
American International University-Bangladesh · BDKing Saud University · SASouthern Illinois University Carbondale · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leaf diseases are a global threat to crop production and food preservation. Detecting these diseases is crucial for effective management. We introduce LeafDoc-Net, a robust, lightweight transfer-learning architecture for accurately detecting leaf diseases across multiple plant species, even with limited image data. Our approach concatenates two pre-trained image classification deep learning-based models, DenseNet121 and MobileNetV2. We enhance DenseNet121 with an attention-based transition mechanism and global average pooling layers, while MobileNetV2 benefits from adding an attention module and global average pooling layers. We deepen the architecture with extra-dense layers featuring swish activation and batch normalization layers, resulting in a more robust and accurate model for diagnosing leaf-related plant diseases. LeafDoc-Net is evaluated on two distinct datasets, focused on cassava and wheat leaf diseases, demonstrating superior performance compared to existing models in accuracy, precision, recall, and AUC metrics. To gain deeper insights into the model's performance, we utilize Grad-CAM++.

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attention moduleattentive-transitionlightweight architecturemulti-leaf diseasemulti-plant leaf diseaseplant leaf diseaserobust architectureswish activation

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