2024/00264 Harnessing Transdisciplinary Knowledge: Integrated Deep Learning Techniques for Accurate Tomato Leaf Disease Classification

Hiren Mewada, L. Syam Sundar, Miral Desai, Mohammed Nayeemuddin

The study proposes a transdisciplinary approach integrating knowledge from fields such ascomputer science, botany, and data science to classifying leaf diseases. We integrated two deep-learningmodels that combine the strengths of the Inception network and the ResNet architecture to address thechallenge of accurately classifying tomato leaf diseases. The Inception network’s ability to quickly pick upvisual features on multiple scales is used to pull out fine-grained details that are needed to tell the differencebetween small changes in the shape of tomato leaves and disease symptoms. The ResNet architecture isgood at learning deep representations and getting around the vanishing gradient problem. This lets themodel learn the high-level concepts and complicated connections between different tomato leaf diseasepatterns. The integration of these two powerful deep-learning techniques results in a robust and highlyperformant tomato leaf classification model. Extensive tests on a 10-class dataset of tomato leaves, with 9disease categories and 1 healthy class, show that the proposed model works better than others, with a testset accuracy of 98.07%. The findings of this research contribute to the advancement of automated andefficient tomato leaf disease detection systems, which can aid in the early identification and management oftomato diseases, leading to improved crop yields and quality.