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These approaches are either unable to identify the diseases or have a slow recognition speed. Therefore, an improved Faster-RCNN (Faster-RCNN-Pro) model is proposed to overcome these issues. First, SENet attention modules are embedded in the backbone of Faster-RCNN to enhance confidence of objects that are difficult to recognize by enhancing key image information and suppressing background information. Second, structure of the feature extraction network and RPN are improved by using multi-feature scale fusion to increase the utilization of micro-target features. Third, the quantization error introduced in the process of pooling the region of interest is then eliminated by ROI Align. Finally, a balanced L1 loss function is designed to effectively reduce the imbalance between samples with a large gradient that are difficult to learn, and samples with a small gradient that are easy to learn. 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