Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical clinical tool that requires precise and reliable interpretation for effective brain tumor diagnosis and timely treatment planning. Deep learning methods have advanced automated tumor classification greatly in the last few years, but many of the current methods are still challenged by a lack of interpretability, a lack of testing on region-focused data, and a lack of model robustness testing. Such limitations reduce clinical trust and limit the practice of automated diagnostic systems. To address these challenges, this study proposes an interpretable deep learning model for classifying brain tumors using the PMRAM dataset, which is a Bangladeshi brain MRI collection containing four categories: glioma, meningioma, pituitary tumor, and normal brain.. The proposed pipeline combines image preprocessing and feature enhancement methods, and then it trains a series of squeeze-and-excitation (SE)-enhanced convolutional neural networks such as VGG19, DenseNet201, MobileNetV3-Large, InceptionV3, and EfficientNetB3. The SE-enhanced EfficientNetB3 performed best, with 98.70% accuracy, 98.77% precision, 98.70% recall, and 98.70% F1-score. Cross-validation also demonstrated stable performance, with a mean accuracy of 96.89%. The model also exhibited efficient inference with low GPU memory consumption, enabling predictions in about 2–4 s per MRI image. Grad-CAM++ and saliency maps were used to improve the transparency of the results, and it was found that the network was concentrated on the clinically significant parts of the tumor, which affected the model predictions. Further robustness analysis and cross-dataset testing are additional evidence of the generalization possibility of the model. An online application was also implemented to allow real-time prediction and visual explanation of brain tumors. Overall, the proposed framework offers a precise, interpretable, and promising solution to automated brain tumor classification using MRI images.

Grapes are among the most economically and culturally significant fruits on a global scale, and table grapes and wine are produced in significant quantities in Europe and Asia. The production and quality of grapes are significantly impacted by grape diseases such as Bacterial Rot, Downy Mildew, and Powdery Mildew. Consequently, the sustainable management of a vineyard necessitates the early and precise identification of these diseases. Current automated methods, particularly those that are based on the YOLO framework, are often computationally costly and lack interpretability that makes them unsuitable for real-world scenarios. This study proposes grape leaf disease classification using Optimized DenseNet 121. Domain-specific preprocessing and extensive connectivity reveal disease-relevant characteristics, including veins, edges, and lesions. An extensive comparison with baseline CNN models, including ResNet18, VGG16, AlexNet, and SqueezeNet, demonstrates that the proposed model exhibits superior performance. It achieves an accuracy of 99.27%, an F1 score of 99.28%, a specificity of 99.71%, and a Kappa of 98.86%, with an inference time of 9 seconds. The cross-validation findings show a mean accuracy of 99.12%, indicating strength and generalizability across all classes. We also employ Grad-CAM to highlight disease-related regions to guarantee the model is highlighting physiologically relevant aspects and increase transparency and confidence. Model optimization reduces processing requirements for real-time deployment, while transfer learning ensures consistency on smaller and unbalanced samples. An effective architecture, domain-specific preprocessing, and interpretable outputs make the proposed framework scalable, precise, and computationally inexpensive for detecting grape leaf diseases.