Table 8 Ablation study results with different model configurations across Mendeley and PlantVillage datasets.
Model configuration | Dataset | Avg. precision (%) | Avg. specificity (%) | Avg. sensitivity (%) | Avg. F1-score (%) | Avg. MCC (%) | Overall accuracy (%) | Balanced accuracy (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DenseNet169 (Baseline) | Mendeley | 82.67 | 96.09 | 82.47 | 82.42 | 78.66 | 82.47 | 80.32 |
PlantVillage | 91.80 | 94.62 | 91.88 | 91.84 | 86.63 | 91.88 | 93.25 | |
DenseNet169+ Transformer + ReLU | Mendeley | 83.13 | 96.21 | 83.12 | 83.12 | 79.40 | 83.12 | 78.91 |
PlantVillage | 92.74 | 95.60 | 92.81 | 92.78 | 88.46 | 92.81 | 94.20 | |
DenseNet169+ Transformer + Mish | Mendeley | 84.27 | 96.47 | 84.25 | 84.26 | 80.77 | 84.25 | 81.62 |
PlantVillage | 95.32 | 97.26 | 95.36 | 95.34 | 92.71 | 95.36 | 96.31 | |
DenseNet169+ Transformer + AFpM (PLDNet) | Mendeley | 87.62 | 97.43 | 87.50 | 87.48 | 84.83 | 87.50 | 88.81 |
PlantVillage | 99.54 | 99.60 | 99.54 | 99.53 | 99.32 | 99.54 | 97.85 |
