TY  - JOUR
AU  - Saleem, Sajjad 
AU  - Hussain, Adil 
AU  - Majeed, Nabila 
AU  - Akhtar, Zahid 
AU  - Siddique, Kamran 
PY  - 2025
TI  - A Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Fusion Deep Learning Method for Classification of Wheat Diseases
JF  - Journal of Computer Science
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.3844/jcssp.2025.34.42
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2025.34.42
AB  - Wheat is an important source of dietary fiber and protein that is negatively impacted by a number of risks to its growth. The difficulty of identifying and classifying wheat diseases is discussed with an emphasis on wheat loose smut, leaf rust, and crown and root rot. Addressing conditions like crown and root rot, this study introduces an innovative approach that integrates multi-scale feature extraction with advanced image segmentation techniques to enhance classification accuracy. The proposed method uses neural network models Xception, Inception V3, and ResNet 50 to train on a large wheat disease classification dataset 2020 in conjunction with an ensemble of machine vision classifiers, including voting and stacking. The study shows that the suggested methodology has a superior accuracy of 99.75% in the classification of wheat diseases when compared to current state-of-the-art approaches. A deep learning ensemble model Xception showed the highest accuracy.