Optimal Deep Learning Model for Olive Disease Diagnosis Based on an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

Though many researchers have studied plant leaf disease, the timely diagnosis of diseases in olive leaves still presents an indisputable challenge. Infected leaves may display different symptoms from one plant to another, or even within the same plant. For this reason, many researchers studied the effects of those diseases on, at most, two plants. Since olive crops are affected by many pathogens, including bacteria welt, olive knot, Aculus olearius, and olive peacock spot, the development of an efficient algorithm to detect the diseases was challenging because the diseases could be defined in many different ways. For this purpose, we introduce an optimal deep learning model for diagnosing olive leaf diseases. This approach is based on an adaptive genetic algorithm for selecting optimal parameters in deep learning model to provide rapid diagnosis. To evaluate our approach, we applied it in three famous deep learning models. For the comparative evaluation, we also tested other well-known machine learning methods. The experimental results presented in this paper show that our model outperformed the other algorithms, achieving an accuracy of approximately 96% for multiclass classification and 98% for binary classification.