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Record W4406080013 · doi:10.1016/j.atech.2024.100755

Evaluation of deep learning models for RGB image-based detection of potato virus y strain symptoms (O, NO, and NTN) in potato plants

2025· article· en· W4406080013 on OpenAlexafffund
Charanpreet Singh, Gurjit S. Randhawa, Aitazaz A. Farooque, Yuvraj Sing Gill, Lokesh Kumar KM, Mathuresh Singh, Khalil I. Al-Mughrabi

Bibliographic record

VenueSmart Agricultural Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant Virus Research Studies
Canadian institutionsGovernment of New Brunswick123 Certification (Canada)University of GuelphUniversity of Prince Edward Island
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Prince Edward Island
KeywordsStrain (injury)RGB color modelDeep learningArtificial intelligenceHorticultureComputer scienceBiologyVirologyAnatomy

Abstract

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Potato virus Y (PVY) has been a long-standing problem for potato growers over the world, due to its ability to cause significant reductions in crop yields. The yield losses due to PVY may range from 10% to 80%, depending on the severity of the infection and the potato variety. The new necrotic strains of PVY cause mild symptoms in the foliage, making it challenging to detect infected plants. Consequently, identifying and disposing of infected plants (known as “roguing”) has become more difficult. There is a growing demand to create solutions that aid growers in identifying potato plants that have been infected with PVY. In past studies, deep learning-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown the ability to successfully make distinctions between various healthy plants, disease plants, and weeds. In this study, the use of these models for the detection of infected plants with different strains of PVY has been explored and extended. Different deep learning models, specifically EfficientNet, VGGNet-19, DenseNet-201 and ResNet-101 are trained on the imagery dataset of healthy and PVY-infected potato plants grown under greenhouse conditions. The evaluation metrics used were accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 Score. The trained models achieved classification accuracy scores of 85% while classifying the healthy and PVY-infected potato plants. The models were also able to accurately detect PVY-infected plants even when the symptoms were mild, which is essential for early detection and prevention of the spread of the virus. These models may assist roguers in the real-time identification of PVY-infected plants that may help in controlling the disease spread and improving the crop yield.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.218
Threshold uncertainty score0.271

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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