Tomato Leaf Diseases Prediction Using Deep Learning Algorithms

In the realm of agriculture, infections on tomato leaves pose a worldwide danger to established tomato production, impacting a large number of farmers worldwide. To ensure healthy tomato plant growth and food security for the world's expanding population, early disease detection, treatment, and solution identification are essential. The use of computer-assisted technologies for disease detection in plant leaf is prevalent in modern agriculture. The goal was to develop an effective deep learning model for the detection of diseases in tomato plant leaf. To address memory and computational resource constraints, the proposed model incorporates a lightweight ‘Region Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN)‘ head and conducted experiments with various neural network architectures, including Densenet-169, optimized Mobilenet-V2 and Resnet-50, to enhance detection accuracy and computational efficiency. The research extends the capabilities of these neural network architectures by optimizing anchor proportions in the Conventional Neural Network (CNN) and modifying feature extraction topologies. These optimizations resulted in improved detection accuracy and computational efficiency and compared proposed technique against cutting-edge models to evaluate its viability and robustness. The outcomes of the research were promising. Impressive outcomes were obtained by the proposed approach regarding accuracy, F1-score, recall, and precision.