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An electronic nose system based on an ensemble convolutional neural network (ECNN, a powerful feature extraction method) was developed to detect potatoes with different degrees of rot. Three types of potatoes were detected: normal samples, slightly rotten samples, and totally rotten samples. A feature discretization method was proposed to optimize the impact of ambient gases on electronic nose signals by eliminating redundant information from the features. The ECNN based on original features presented good results for the prediction of rotten potatoes in both laboratory and storage environments, and the accuracy of the prediction results was 94.70% and 90.76%, respectively. Moreover, the application of the feature discretization method significantly improved the prediction results, and the accuracy of prediction results improved by 1.59% and 3.73%, respectively. 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