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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Plant Sci.

Sec. Sustainable and Intelligent Phytoprotection

This article is part of the Research TopicPlant Phenotyping for AgricultureView all 20 articles

TSSC: A New Deep Learning Model for Accurate Pea Leaf Disease Identification

Provisionally accepted
Laixiang  XuLaixiang Xu1Yibu  ChangYibu Chang1Yang  ZhangYang Zhang2Xiaodong  YangXiaodong Yang3Xinjia  ChenXinjia Chen1Zhaopeng  CaiZhaopeng Cai1Junmin  ZhaoJunmin Zhao1*
  • 1Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China
  • 2Chinese academy of science, Beijing, China
  • 3Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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Problem: Accurate diagnosis of plant diseases is crucial for ensuring crop yield and food safety. This study aims to explore a deep learning based intelligent recognition methods for plant leaf diseases to solve the automatic recognition problem of various pea leaf diseases. Methodology: We propose a novel deep learning framework called TSSC. First, a three-neighbor channel attention is designed to promote the effectiveness of feature extraction. Second, a complementary squeeze and excitation mechanism is introduced to enhance the ability to extract key features. Finally, a split attention module is embedded to reduce model complexity. Results: The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves an overall classification accuracy of 99.61% and outperforms other excellent deep learning models. Contribution: The currently proposed system provides an effective solution for image recognition of complex plant diseases and has reference value for the development of mobile disease detection equipment.

Keywords: Plant Pathology, Pea leaf, deep learning, Convolutional Neural Network, Split attention

Received: 04 Oct 2025; Accepted: 13 Nov 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Xu, Chang, Zhang, Yang, Chen, Cai and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Junmin Zhao, zhaojunminhuuc@yeah.net

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