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Fungi","JoF"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Potato tuber dry rot is a major postharvest decay caused predominantly by Fusarium spp. During early infection, external symptoms may be absent even when faint internal browning, localized dehydration, and tissue structure changes have begun. Manual inspection, destructive cutting, and culture- or molecular-based assays are therefore poorly suited to rapid, nondestructive, high-throughput screening. We developed a near-infrared hyperspectral imaging method that combines spatial and spectral representations in a dual-branch ResNet12-SE network. The working dataset contained 1725 labeled records (862 healthy and 863 early-infected records); records were assigned to subsets by tuber identifier, and an infected volume ratio below 5% was used as an operational early infection threshold. The calibrated model input was a 224-band, 224 \u00d7 224 hyperspectral cube. The spatial branch used a ResNet-12 backbone with spatial squeeze-and-excitation (SE), whereas the spectral branch used spectral SE followed by bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). The two feature vectors were concatenated for binary classification. In the single-split test, the proposed model achieved 98.22% accuracy, compared with 90.67% for the ResNet-12 baseline and 97.43% for Vision Transformer. Preprocessing, principal component image, local binary pattern, and gray-level co-occurrence matrix analyses provide complementary interpretation of the spectral and spatial responses. 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