Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm.
Cotton is a major cash crop, and increasing its production is extremely important worldwide, especially in agriculture-led economies. The crop is susceptible to various diseases, leading to decreased yields. In recent years, advancements in deep learning methods have enabled researchers to develop a...
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| author | Afira Aslam Syed Muhammad Usman Muhammad Zubair Amanullah Yasin Muhammad Owais Irfan Hussain |
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| description | Cotton is a major cash crop, and increasing its production is extremely important worldwide, especially in agriculture-led economies. The crop is susceptible to various diseases, leading to decreased yields. In recent years, advancements in deep learning methods have enabled researchers to develop automated methods for detecting diseases in cotton crops. Such automation not only assists farmers in mitigating the effects of the disease but also conserves resources in terms of labor and fertilizer costs. However, accurate classification of multiple diseases simultaneously in cotton remains challenging due to multiple factors, including class imbalance, variation in disease symptoms, and the need for real-time detection, as most existing datasets are acquired under controlled conditions. This research proposes a novel method for addressing these challenges and accurately classifying seven classes, including six diseases and a healthy class. We address the class imbalance issue through synthetic data generation using conventional methods like scaling, rotating, transforming, shearing, and zooming and propose a customized StyleGAN for synthetic data generation. After preprocessing, we combine features extracted from MobileNet and VGG16 to create a comprehensive feature vector, passed to three classifiers: Long Short Term Memory Units, Support Vector Machines, and Random Forest. We propose a StackNet-based ensemble classifier that takes the output probabilities of these three classifiers and predicts the class label among six diseases-Bacterial blight, Curl virus, Fusarium wilt, Alternaria, Cercospora, Greymildew-and a healthy class. We trained and tested our method on publicly available datasets, achieving an average accuracy of 97%. Our robust method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques to identify the six diseases and the healthy class. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d29626d75e6a43c8af296d8c1939091d2025-08-20T02:23:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01205e032429310.1371/journal.pone.0324293Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm.Afira AslamSyed Muhammad UsmanMuhammad ZubairAmanullah YasinMuhammad OwaisIrfan HussainCotton is a major cash crop, and increasing its production is extremely important worldwide, especially in agriculture-led economies. The crop is susceptible to various diseases, leading to decreased yields. In recent years, advancements in deep learning methods have enabled researchers to develop automated methods for detecting diseases in cotton crops. Such automation not only assists farmers in mitigating the effects of the disease but also conserves resources in terms of labor and fertilizer costs. However, accurate classification of multiple diseases simultaneously in cotton remains challenging due to multiple factors, including class imbalance, variation in disease symptoms, and the need for real-time detection, as most existing datasets are acquired under controlled conditions. This research proposes a novel method for addressing these challenges and accurately classifying seven classes, including six diseases and a healthy class. We address the class imbalance issue through synthetic data generation using conventional methods like scaling, rotating, transforming, shearing, and zooming and propose a customized StyleGAN for synthetic data generation. After preprocessing, we combine features extracted from MobileNet and VGG16 to create a comprehensive feature vector, passed to three classifiers: Long Short Term Memory Units, Support Vector Machines, and Random Forest. We propose a StackNet-based ensemble classifier that takes the output probabilities of these three classifiers and predicts the class label among six diseases-Bacterial blight, Curl virus, Fusarium wilt, Alternaria, Cercospora, Greymildew-and a healthy class. We trained and tested our method on publicly available datasets, achieving an average accuracy of 97%. Our robust method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques to identify the six diseases and the healthy class.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324293 |
| spellingShingle | Afira Aslam Syed Muhammad Usman Muhammad Zubair Amanullah Yasin Muhammad Owais Irfan Hussain Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm. PLoS ONE |
| title | Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm. |
| title_full | Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm. |
| title_fullStr | Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm. |
| title_short | Multi-convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm. |
| title_sort | multi convolutional neural networks for cotton disease detection using synergistic deep learning paradigm |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324293 |
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