Wheat is a critical crop,extensively consumed worldwide,and its production enhancement is essential to meet escalating demand.The presence of diseases like stem rust,leaf rust,yellow rust,and tan spot significantly di...Wheat is a critical crop,extensively consumed worldwide,and its production enhancement is essential to meet escalating demand.The presence of diseases like stem rust,leaf rust,yellow rust,and tan spot significantly diminishes wheat yield,making the early and precise identification of these diseases vital for effective disease management.With advancements in deep learning algorithms,researchers have proposed many methods for the automated detection of disease pathogens;however,accurately detectingmultiple disease pathogens simultaneously remains a challenge.This challenge arises due to the scarcity of RGB images for multiple diseases,class imbalance in existing public datasets,and the difficulty in extracting features that discriminate between multiple classes of disease pathogens.In this research,a novel method is proposed based on Transfer Generative Adversarial Networks for augmenting existing data,thereby overcoming the problems of class imbalance and data scarcity.This study proposes a customized architecture of Vision Transformers(ViT),where the feature vector is obtained by concatenating features extracted from the custom ViT and Graph Neural Networks.This paper also proposes a Model AgnosticMeta Learning(MAML)based ensemble classifier for accurate classification.The proposedmodel,validated on public datasets for wheat disease pathogen classification,achieved a test accuracy of 99.20%and an F1-score of 97.95%.Compared with existing state-of-the-art methods,this proposed model outperforms in terms of accuracy,F1-score,and the number of disease pathogens detection.In future,more diseases can be included for detection along with some other modalities like pests and weed.展开更多
Age-related Macular Degeneration(AMD)and Diabetic Macular Edema(DME)are two com-mon retinal diseases for elder people that may ultimately cause irreversible blindness.Timely and accurate diagnosis is essential for the...Age-related Macular Degeneration(AMD)and Diabetic Macular Edema(DME)are two com-mon retinal diseases for elder people that may ultimately cause irreversible blindness.Timely and accurate diagnosis is essential for the treatment of these diseases.In recent years,computer-aided diagnosis(CAD)has been deeply investigated and effectively used for rapid and early diagnosis.In this paper,we proposed a method of CAD using vision transformer to analyze optical co-herence tomography(OCT)images and to automatically discriminate AMD,DME,and normal eyes.A classification accuracy of 99.69%was achieved.After the model pruning,the recognition time reached 0.010 s and the classification accuracy did not drop.Compared with the Con-volutional Neural Network(CNN)image classification models(VGG16,Resnet50,Densenet121,and EfficientNet),vision transformer after pruning exhibited better recognition ability.Results show that vision transformer is an improved alternative to diagnose retinal diseases more accurately.展开更多
基金Researchers Supporting Project Number(RSPD2024R 553),King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Wheat is a critical crop,extensively consumed worldwide,and its production enhancement is essential to meet escalating demand.The presence of diseases like stem rust,leaf rust,yellow rust,and tan spot significantly diminishes wheat yield,making the early and precise identification of these diseases vital for effective disease management.With advancements in deep learning algorithms,researchers have proposed many methods for the automated detection of disease pathogens;however,accurately detectingmultiple disease pathogens simultaneously remains a challenge.This challenge arises due to the scarcity of RGB images for multiple diseases,class imbalance in existing public datasets,and the difficulty in extracting features that discriminate between multiple classes of disease pathogens.In this research,a novel method is proposed based on Transfer Generative Adversarial Networks for augmenting existing data,thereby overcoming the problems of class imbalance and data scarcity.This study proposes a customized architecture of Vision Transformers(ViT),where the feature vector is obtained by concatenating features extracted from the custom ViT and Graph Neural Networks.This paper also proposes a Model AgnosticMeta Learning(MAML)based ensemble classifier for accurate classification.The proposedmodel,validated on public datasets for wheat disease pathogen classification,achieved a test accuracy of 99.20%and an F1-score of 97.95%.Compared with existing state-of-the-art methods,this proposed model outperforms in terms of accuracy,F1-score,and the number of disease pathogens detection.In future,more diseases can be included for detection along with some other modalities like pests and weed.
基金This work was supported by the Science and Technology innovation project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(19441905800)the Natural National Science Foundation of China(62175156,81827807,8210041176,82101177,61675134)+1 种基金the Project of State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology,Optometry and Visual Science,Wenzhou Medical University(K181002)the Key R&D Program Projects in Zhejiang Province(2019C03045).
文摘Age-related Macular Degeneration(AMD)and Diabetic Macular Edema(DME)are two com-mon retinal diseases for elder people that may ultimately cause irreversible blindness.Timely and accurate diagnosis is essential for the treatment of these diseases.In recent years,computer-aided diagnosis(CAD)has been deeply investigated and effectively used for rapid and early diagnosis.In this paper,we proposed a method of CAD using vision transformer to analyze optical co-herence tomography(OCT)images and to automatically discriminate AMD,DME,and normal eyes.A classification accuracy of 99.69%was achieved.After the model pruning,the recognition time reached 0.010 s and the classification accuracy did not drop.Compared with the Con-volutional Neural Network(CNN)image classification models(VGG16,Resnet50,Densenet121,and EfficientNet),vision transformer after pruning exhibited better recognition ability.Results show that vision transformer is an improved alternative to diagnose retinal diseases more accurately.
