Leveraging YOLO deep learning models to enhance plant disease identification

作者：Yousef Alhwaiti, Muntazir Khan, Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi, M. Ishaq, Madallah Alruwaili · 发表于：Scientific Reports · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1038/s41598-025-92143-0 · 被引用次数：80 · 研究领域：Medicine

Early automation in identifying plant diseases is crucial for the precise protection of crops. Plant diseases pose substantial risks to agriculture-dependent nations, often leading to notable crop losses and financial challenges, particularly in developing countries. Symptoms such as chlorosis, structural deformities, and wilting, characterize these diseases. However, early identification can be challenging due to symptoms similarity. Researchers using artificial intelligence (AI) for plant disease classification, challenges like data imbalance, symptom variability, real-time performance, and costly annotation hinder accuracy and adoption. This work introduced a novel approach using the You Only Look Once (YOLO) deep learning model, chosen for its exceptional accuracy and speed. The study focuses on analyzing YOLO models, specifically YOLOv3 and YOLOv4, to identify fruit plant diseases. This work examines healthy peach and strawberry leaves, as well as peach leaves affected by bacterial spots and strawberry leaves with scorch disease. These models underwent thorough training using data from the publicly accessible Plant Village dataset. The simulation results were highly promising, numerically YOLOv3 model achieved 97% accuracy and a Mean Average Precision (mAP) of 92%, within a total detection time of 105 s. In comparison, the YOLOv4 model outperformed, with a 98% accuracy and an impressive mean average precision of 98%, all while completing the detection process in just 29 ...