{"title":"Ensemble transfer learning meets explainable AI: A deep learning approach for leaf disease detection","authors":"Hetarth Raval, Jyotismita Chaki","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102925","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global food security is threatened by plant diseases and manual detection methods are often labor-intensive and time-consuming. Deep learning offers a promising solution by enabling early and accurate detection of leaf diseases. This study presents a novel deep-learning model designed to address the challenges of real-world leaf disease identification. To enhance the model's robustness, we incorporated six datasets (LD, LD1, LD2, LD3, LD4, LD5) which include image augmentation techniques, like flipped versions (LD1) and controlled noise (LD2, LD3). Additionally, we introduced new datasets with additional noise types (LD4) and real-world scenarios (LD5). To further improve accuracy, we employed an ensemble approach, combining MobileNetV3_Small and EfficientNetV2B3 with weighted voting. Our model achieved exceptional performance, surpassing 94 % accuracy on imbalanced data (LD) and exceeding 99 % on balanced, high-quality data (LD1). Even in noisy environments (LD2, LD3, LD4, LD5), our model consistently outperformed other approaches, maintaining an accuracy rate above 90 %. To ensure transparency and interpretability, we utilized Explainable AI (LIME) to visualize the model's decision-making process. These results demonstrate the potential of our model as a reliable and accurate tool for leaf disease detection in practical agricultural settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51024,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102925"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ecological Informatics","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954124004679","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Global food security is threatened by plant diseases and manual detection methods are often labor-intensive and time-consuming. Deep learning offers a promising solution by enabling early and accurate detection of leaf diseases. This study presents a novel deep-learning model designed to address the challenges of real-world leaf disease identification. To enhance the model's robustness, we incorporated six datasets (LD, LD1, LD2, LD3, LD4, LD5) which include image augmentation techniques, like flipped versions (LD1) and controlled noise (LD2, LD3). Additionally, we introduced new datasets with additional noise types (LD4) and real-world scenarios (LD5). To further improve accuracy, we employed an ensemble approach, combining MobileNetV3_Small and EfficientNetV2B3 with weighted voting. Our model achieved exceptional performance, surpassing 94 % accuracy on imbalanced data (LD) and exceeding 99 % on balanced, high-quality data (LD1). Even in noisy environments (LD2, LD3, LD4, LD5), our model consistently outperformed other approaches, maintaining an accuracy rate above 90 %. To ensure transparency and interpretability, we utilized Explainable AI (LIME) to visualize the model's decision-making process. These results demonstrate the potential of our model as a reliable and accurate tool for leaf disease detection in practical agricultural settings.
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The journal Ecological Informatics is devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of computational ecology, data science and biogeography. The scope of the journal takes into account the data-intensive nature of ecology, the growing capacity of information technology to access, harness and leverage complex data as well as the critical need for informing sustainable management in view of global environmental and climate change.
The nature of the journal is interdisciplinary at the crossover between ecology and informatics. It focuses on novel concepts and techniques for image- and genome-based monitoring and interpretation, sensor- and multimedia-based data acquisition, internet-based data archiving and sharing, data assimilation, modelling and prediction of ecological data.