openalexScientific Reports2026-07-24
MSE-YOLOv8n: a cotton leaf disease detection model for complex backgrounds and small targets
Kaisi Xue, W. Zhang, Ziwei Gan, Chengkun Zhang
As one of China’s pivotal cash crops, cotton’s leaf health directly impacts the textile industry and agricultural economic growth, with leaf diseases emerging as a critical constraint on cotton yield. Traditional manual identification of cotton leaf diseases, plagued by high subj…