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Hybrid multimodal learning framework for crop disease detection, adaptive treatment, and price forecasting
Frontiers in Computer Science · 16 Jun 2026 · 10.3389/fcomp.2026.1855851
Abstract
Crop diseases play a significant role in food production globally; therefore, there is an urgent need to develop quick and accurate diagnostic techniques that are more effective than manual inspection methods. The proposed hybrid multimodal learning framework in this research provides a solution that integrates adaptive therapy suggestion, market price prediction, and image-based disease detection. This study also proposes a framework for pesticide recommendation and the treatment of plants. This study experiment on tomato and cotton crop leaf data for disease detection. Experimental results on a tomato crop disease detection dataset show that the proposed model shows high performance. EfficientNetB0 provides more stability and generalization capabilities in different scenarios compared to other models, such as YOLOv8, ResNet50, and a custom CNN model. The use of a knowledge-based decision support system provides sustainable pesticide recommendations based on environmental and symptom-specific parameters. Forecasting of pesticide prices through LSTM methods yields forecasts within 3.2% and 4.1% MAE, enabling improved decision-making by providing instant points of reference for potential price movements. Research uses SHAP and LIME to provide explainability to users, thus improving user buy-in through transparency. Overall, this modular system provides a data-driven decision-making model to improve the efficiency of managing crops.
Code and data availability
The paper's disease-detection experiments use publicly available cotton and tomato leaf image datasets (Kaggle, IEEE DataPort, Roboflow), all cited with explicit public URLs in the references. No author analysis code or trained model checkpoints are stated as publicly available; the supplementary material is referenced
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Open resource ↗Kaggle · lines:554-633Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) ( Las Vegas, NV : IEEE ), 779 – 788 . doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2016.91 CrossRef Google Scholar View reference in article 29 Roboflow ( 2026a ). A Comprehensive Dataset of Cotton Plant Diseases for National Disease Identification and Treatment Guidance | IEEE DataPort. Available online at: https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/comprehensive-dataset-cotton-plant-diseases-national-disease-identification-and-treatment (Accessed March 29, 2026). Google Scholar View reference in article 30 Roboflow ( 2026b ). Cotton Plant Disease Prediction Object Detection Model by National College of Ireland . Available online at: https://universe.roboflow.com/national-colle
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