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This study presents a lightweight RGB-based framework for non-destructive measurement of greenhouse tomato fruits under foliage occlusion, uneven illumination, and fruit overlap. By improving instance segmentation while constraining computational cost, the framework generated cleaner fruit masks for downstream color analysis, quality inference, and single-fruit weight estimation. Compared with YOLO11n, the proposed model reduced GFLOPs from 10.2 to 8.2 and improved mask precision from 78.2% to 84.6% and mask F1-score from 82.8% to 85.2%, while box recall, mask recall, and IoU showed small trade-offs. Segmentation remained comparatively stable across maturity stages. RGB features from the refined masks were most useful for vitamin C and soluble solids, supporting rapid, indirect quality screening. In parallel, disk-based geometric reconstruction from fruit contours estimated single-fruit weight with MAE values of 1.69 g\u00b7fruit\u22121 for large-fruited tomatoes and 1.29 g\u00b7fruit\u22121 for cherry tomatoes. The improved masks enhanced single-fruit weight estimation, whereas biochemical quality prediction remained an indirect, trait-dependent estimation that may partly reflect maturity-related color variation rather than direct measurement. 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