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Cranberry fruit rot results from a complex of more than ten filamentous fungi, challenging breeding for resistance. Nonetheless, our collaborative breeding program has fruit rot resistance as a significant target. This program currently relies heavily on manual sorting of sound vs. rotten cranberries. This process is labor-intensive and time-consuming, prompting the need for an automated classification (sound vs. rotten) system. Although many studies have focused on classifying different fruits and vegetables, no such approach has been developed for cranberries yet, partly because datasets are lacking for conducting the necessary image analyses. This research addresses this gap by introducing a novel image dataset comprising sound and rotten cranberries to facilitate computational analysis. In addition, we developed CARP (Cranberry Assessment for Rot Prediction), a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model to distinguish sound cranberries from rotten ones. 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