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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2025

A lightweight deep convolutional neural network development for soybean leaf disease recognition.

Yakun Zhang, Ruofei Bao, Mengxin Guan, Zixuan Wang, Libo Wang, Xiahua Cui, Xiaoli Niu, Yan Wang, Shaukat Ali, Yafei Wang

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Yakun ZhangDepartment College of Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Ruofei BaoDepartment College of Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Mengxin GuanDepartment College of Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Zixuan WangDepartment College of Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Libo WangDepartment College of Food Bioengineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Xiahua CuiDepartment College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Organization Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Xiaoli NiuDepartment College of Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Yan WangDepartment College of Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Organization Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.
Shaukat AliDepartment Wah Engineering College, Organization University of Wah, Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Yafei WangDepartment School of Agricultural Engineering, Organization Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.

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Soybean is one of the world's major oil-bearing crops and occupies an important role in the daily diet of human beings. However, the frequent occurrence of soybean leaf diseases caused serious threats to its yield and quality during soybean cultivation. Rapid identification of soybean leaf diseases could provide a better solution for efficient control and subsequent precision application. In this study, a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based on multiscale feature extraction fusion (MFEF) and combined with a dense connectivity (DC) network (MFEF-DCNet) was proposed for soybean leaf disease identification. In MFEF-DCNet, a multiscale feature extraction fusion (MFEF) module for soybean leaves was constructed by utilizing a convolutional attention module and depth-separable convolution to improve the model feature extraction capability. Multiscale features are fused by using dense connections (DC) in the backbone network to improve the model generalization capability. Experiments were implemented on eight distinct disease and deficiency classes of soybean images (including bacterial blight, cercospora leaf blight, downy mildew, frogeye leaf spot, healthy, potassium deficiency, soybean rust, and target spot) using the proposed network. The results showed that the MFEF-DCNet had an accuracy of 0.9470, an average precision of 0.9510, an average recall of 0.9480, and an F1-score of 0.9490 for soybean leaf disease identification. And MFEF-DCNet had certain performance advantages in terms of classification accuracy, convergence speed and other effects compared with VGG16, ResNet50, DenseNet201, EfficientNetB0, Xception and MobileNetV3_small models. In addition, the accuracy of the MFEF-DCNet model in recognizing soybean diseases in local data was 0.9024, which indicated that the MFEF-DCNet model had favorable application in practical applications. The proposed model and experience in this study could provide useful inspiration for automated disease identification in soybean and other crops.

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deep convolutional neural networksdense connectivitydisease diagnosismultiscale feature extraction fusionsoybean leaf diseases

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