Improving FHB Screening in Wheat Breeding Using an Efficient Transformer Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03670v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 15:44:58 GMT
• Title: Improving FHB Screening in Wheat Breeding Using an Efficient Transformer Model
• Authors: Babak Azad, Ahmed Abdalla, Kwanghee Won, Ali Mirzakhani Nafchi
• Abstract summary: Fusarium head blight is a devastating disease that causes significant economic losses annually on small grains. Image processing techniques have been developed using supervised machine learning algorithms for the early detection of FHB. A new Context Bridge is proposed to integrate the local representation capability of the U-Net network in the transformer model.
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• Abstract: Fusarium head blight is a devastating disease that causes significant economic losses annually on small grains. Efficiency, accuracy, and timely detection of FHB in the resistance screening are critical for wheat and barley breeding programs. In recent years, various image processing techniques have been developed using supervised machine learning algorithms for the early detection of FHB. The state-of-the-art convolutional neural network-based methods, such as U-Net, employ a series of encoding blocks to create a local representation and a series of decoding blocks to capture the semantic relations. However, these methods are not often capable of long-range modeling dependencies inside the input data, and their ability to model multi-scale objects with significant variations in texture and shape is limited. Vision transformers as alternative architectures with innate global self-attention mechanisms for sequence-to-sequence prediction, due to insufficient low-level details, may also limit localization capabilities. To overcome these limitations, a new Context Bridge is proposed to integrate the local representation capability of the U-Net network in the transformer model. In addition, the standard attention mechanism of the original transformer is replaced with Efficient Self-attention, which is less complicated than other state-of-the-art methods. To train the proposed network, 12,000 wheat images from an FHB-inoculated wheat field at the SDSU research farm in Volga, SD, were captured. In addition to healthy and unhealthy plants, these images encompass various stages of the disease. A team of expert pathologists annotated the images for training and evaluating the developed model. As a result, the effectiveness of the transformer-based method for FHB-disease detection, through extensive experiments across typical tasks for plant image segmentation, is demonstrated.

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