Original ResearchPublished 7 October 2026Preprocessing strategies for plant disease instance segmentation: annotation efficiency, context signals, and dual-metric evaluation on PlantSegYoussef Natij · Hajar El Karch · Abdelmounaim Belaaribi · Oumaima Lanaya · Meriem El Atik · Abdelkader MezouariFrontiers in Artificial Intelligencedoi 10.3389/frai.2026.1835997