Tomato plant disease prediction system with a new framework SSMAN using advanced deep learning techniques

Agriculture plays a pivotal role in India's economy, and the timely detection of plant infections is essential to safeguard crops and prevent further spread of diseases. The conventional approach involves manual inspection of plant leaves to identify the specific type of disease, a task typically carried out by farmers or plant pathologists. In previous studies, you only look once (YOLO) and faster region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN), machine learning algorithms were applied to datasets for detecting objects on tomato leaves which includes a total of images 2403 and got accuracies of 86 and 82 percent. In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model proposed with a new framework separate, shift, and merge based AlexNet50 algorithm (SSMAN) is used to predict the disease at an earlier stage with higher accuracy. Among various pre-trained deep models, AlexNet emerges as the top performer, achieving the highest accuracy in disease classification. SSMAN can address anomalies in images by employing a class decomposition approach to scrutinize class boundaries. AlexNet exhibits a notable accuracy of 98.30% in successfully identifying tomato leaf diseases from images, with pre-trained new framework, superior to the original AlexNet architecture as well as traditional classification methods with other algorithms.