Nondestructive Detection of Corky Disease in Symptomless 'Akizuki' Pears via Raman Spectroscopy.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

'Akizuki' pear ( Nakai) corky disease is a physiological disease that strongly affects the fruit quality of 'Akizuki' pear and its economic value. In this study, Raman spectroscopy was employed to develop an early diagnosis model by integrating support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and convolutional neural network (CNN) modeling techniques. The effects of various pretreatment methods and combinations of methods on modeling results were studied. The relative optimal index formula was utilized to identify the SG and SG+WT as the most effective preprocessing methods. Following the optimal preprocessing method, the performance of the majority of the models was markedly enhanced through the process of model reconditioning, among which XGBoost achieved 80% accuracy under SG+WT pretreatment, and F1 and kappa both performed best. The results show that RF, GBDT, and XGBoost are more sensitive to the pretreatment method, whereas SVM and CNN are more dependent on internal parameter tuning. The results of this study indicate that the early detection of Raman spectroscopy represents a novel approach for the nondestructive identification of asymptomatic 'Akizuki' pear corky disease, which is of paramount importance for the realization of large-scale detection across orchards.

Authors

  • Yue Yang
    Department of Nephrology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.
  • Weizhi Yang
    School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei 230036, China.
  • Hanhan Zhang
    School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei 230036, China.
  • Jing Xu
    First Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
  • Xiu Jin
    Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Smart Agricultural Technology and Equipment, Anhui Agriculture University, Hefei, 230001, China. jinxiu123@ahau.edu.cn.
  • Xiaodan Zhang
    Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Smart Agricultural Technology and Equipment, Anhui Agriculture University, Hefei, 230001, China.
  • Zhengfeng Ye
    School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei 230036, China.
  • Xiaomei Tang
    Institute for Brain Research, Wuhan Center of Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China.
  • Lun Liu
    School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei 230036, China.
  • Wei Heng
    School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei 230036, China.
  • Bing Jia
    School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei 230036, China.
  • Li Liu
    Metanotitia Inc., Shenzhen, China.