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DSPformer integrates edge-enhanced feature extraction, dynamic multi-scale spatial-spectral representation, Peak-k selective attention, and a confusion-aware dynamic focal loss to enhance discriminative features while reducing spectral redundancy, class imbalance, and inter-class confusion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Under the patch-level evaluation protocol, DSPformer achieved 96.22% accuracy, 95.55% recall, 96.35% precision, and 95.95% F1-score, outperforming the compared CNN- and Transformer-based models. Day-wise evaluation showed that DSPformer reached 82.61% accuracy on Day 1 and 96.55% on Day 3, before visible heat-stress symptoms appeared on Day 6. Under a plant-level partition protocol, DSPformer maintained robust performance with 93.76 +\/- 0.49% accuracy. 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