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Advanced Plant Disease Recognition using Graph Neural Networks and Semantic Segmentation Cover

Advanced Plant Disease Recognition using Graph Neural Networks and Semantic Segmentation

Open Access
|Jul 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Overall workflow of the proposed framework for plant disease detection. GAT, graph attention network; GCN, graph convolutional network; NAS, neural architecture search.

Figure 2:

Global performance metrics of the GAT model. GAT, graph attention network.

Figure 3:

Confusion matrix of the proposed model on the Apple dataset.

Figure 4:

Confusion matrix of the proposed model on the Grape dataset.

Figure 5:

t-SNE Visualization for grape classification. Misclassified samples (“X”) are colored by their true class but positioned in the predicted (false) cluster.

Figure 6:

t-SNE Visualization for potato classification. Misclassified samples (“X”) are colored by their true class but positioned in the predicted (false) cluster.

Figure 7:

GAT robustness benchmarks. GAT, graph attention network.

Figure 8:

Training and validation accuracy and loss curves of the proposed model on the Apple dataset.

Figure 9:

Comparative performance of the proposed GAT model and baseline methods (YOLOv11, ResNet-50, and GCN) on plant disease detection. GAT, graph attention network; GCN, graph convolutional network; mAP, mean average precision.

An overview of the identification and categorization of diseases of plant leaves

ReferenceObjectiveApproachMain resultsConstraints
[3]Segment diseased leaf portions for classificationSVMImproved feature extraction for disease classificationRequires manual feature extraction; may not generalize well
[4]Enhance feature extraction using combined classifiersVoting classifier integrating decision trees, SVM, and K-NNCombining classifiers significantly enhances accuracyComplexity in integrating multiple classifiers
[14]Detect strawberry diseases (leaf blight, crown/leaf/fruit, gray mold, powdery mildew) via CNN (compare VGG16, GoogLeNet, ResNet50)792 original images +1,306 features (manually trimmed) of Taoyuan milling cutters, train 3 CNNs (20 epochs, SGD, 80/20 split) on originals/features; confusion matricesResNet50 + features–100% leaf blight (crown/leaf/fruit), 98% gray mold/powdery mildew. Features > original all models.Manually cropped images; specific dataset (cultivars/location Taiwan); not healthy, not real-time/field, small dataset (augmentation)
[15]Compare 18 CNNs + DL optimizers to classify 38 diseases (PlantVillage).Three best (Xception, Imp. GoogLeNet, AlexNet + GoogLeNet) + 6 optimizers.Xception + Adam = 99.81% acc, 0.9978 F1 Imp. GoogLeNet + Adam = 99.04% acc, 0.9864 F1Heavy computing (56 hr of Xception, 4GB GPU) Classification. Single Lab dataset field
[6]Crop disease detection using CNNResidual CNN with self-attentionAchieved 98% accuracy on MK-D2 and 95.33% on AES-CD9214Limited generalization to other crops; dataset-specific results
[16]Identification of rice leaf diseasesPre-trained MobileNet-V2 with attention mechanismAchieved 98.48% accuracyDependent on ImageNet pre-training; focused on rice leaf disease only
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 29, 2025
Published on: Jul 15, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Walid Dhifallah, Om Essaad Slama, Mounira Tarhouni, Chahira Lhioui, Salah Zidi, published by Macquarie University, Australia
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Volume 19 (2026): Issue 1 (January 2026)