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ArticleBMC plant biology2025

Deep learning method for cucumber disease detection in complex environments for new agricultural productivity.

Jun Liu, Xuewei Wang, Qian Chen, Peng Yan, Xin Liu

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Article in BMC plant biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Jun LiuShandong Engineering Research Center of Green and High-value Marine Fine Chemical, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, Shandong, China. liu_jun860116@wfust.edu.cn.
Xuewei WangShandong Engineering Research Center of Green and High-value Marine Fine Chemical, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, Shandong, China.
Qian ChenSchool of Computer, Sichuan Technology and Business University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. chenqianwork2019@163.com.
Peng YanThe Industry-Education Integration Office, Sichuan Technology and Business University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 61174, China. nic@stbu.edu.cn.
Xin LiuShandong Engineering Research Center of Green and High-value Marine Fine Chemical, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, Shandong, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cucumber disease detection under complex agricultural conditions faces significant challenges due to multi-scale variation, background clutter, and hardware limitations. This study proposes YOLO-Cucumber, an improved lightweight detection algorithm based on YOLOv11n, incorporating four key innovations: (1) Deformable Convolutional Networks (DCN) for enhanced feature extraction of irregular targets, (2) a P2 prediction layer for fine-grained detection of early-stage lesions, (3) a Target-aware Loss (TAL) function addressing class imbalance, and (4) Channel Pruning via Batch Normalization (CPBN) for model compression. Experiments on our cucumber disease dataset demonstrate that YOLO-Cucumber achieves a 6.5% improvement in mAP@50 (93.8%), while reducing model size by 3.87 MB and increasing inference speed to 218 FPS. The model effectively handles symptom variability and complex detection scenarios, outperforming mainstream detection algorithms in accuracy, speed, and compactness, making it ideal for embedded agricultural applications.

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Cucumis sativusDeep LearningPlant DiseasesAgricultureAlgorithmsChannel pruningCucumber disease detectionDeformable Convolution Networks (DCN)Embedded deploymentPrecision agricultureTarget-aware LossYOLOv11n

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