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. 2023 Sep 19;6:1203546. doi: 10.3389/frai.2023.1203546

Table 5.

Overview of XAI studies in plant phenotyping.

References XAI technique Purpose of XAI Phenotyping task Plant dataset Model
Ghosal et al. (2018) Ranked features and generated saliency map of features Explain model understanding Identification of soybean stresses from plant leaves Proposed dataset Proposed model
Nagasubramanian et al. (2019) Saliency map visualization Track physiological insights of model prediction Classification of charcoal rot Proposed dataset 3D CNN
Toda and Okura (2019) 1. Occlusion analysis, 2. LIME, 3. GBP, 4. GradCAM, 5. DeepLIFT, 6. Explanation map Interpret the representation of plant disease by a CNN Plant disease classification PlantVillage InceptionV3
Grinblat et al. (2016) Saliency map visualization Understand the features learned by a CNN for classification Plant classification using vain morphological pattern of white bean, red bean, and soybean Larese et al. (2014) Shallow CNN
Wei et al. (2022) 1. GradCAM, 2. LIME, 3. Smilkov et al. (2017) Study the contribution of appearance and texture characteristics to model prediction Leaf lesion classification PlantVillage 1. VGG, 2. GoogleNet, 3. ResNet
Mostafa et al. (2021) GBP Selection of model depth and analyzing overfit model Plant and leaf classification 1. PlantVillage 1. Shallow CNN
2. Plant Seedling 2. ResNet50
3. Beck et al., 2020
Mostafa et al. (2022) GBP Selection of model depth Plant and leaf classification 1. PlantVillage 1. Shallow CNN
2. Plant Seedling 2. ResNet50
3. Beck et al., 2020
Ghosal et al. (2017) GradCAM Isolate visual symptoms that contribute to model prediction Classification of foliar stresses in the soybean plant PlantVillage Proposed model
Nagasubramanian et al. (2020) 1. Saliency map, 2. SmoothGrad, 3. GBP. 4. Deep taylor decomposition, 5. Integrated gradients, 6. LRP, 7. Gradient times input Compare different XAI techniques to interpret the prediction Plant leaf classification Ghosal et al., 2018 DenseNet-121
Minamikawa et al. (2022) GradCAM Visualize features relevant to the prediction Measure the morphological features of citrus fruits Proposed dataset 1. VGG16 2. ResNet50 3. InceptionV3 4. InceptionResNetv2
Akagi et al. (2020) 1. GradCAM, 2. GBP, 3. LRP, 4. Guided GradCAM, 5. InceptionResNetv2 Diagnose internal disorder in permission fruit using the visualization Classify calyx-end cracking in persimmon fruit Proposed dataset 1. AlexNet 2. VGG16 3. InceptionV3 4. ResNet50
Schramowski et al. (2020) 1. GradCAM Analyze Clever Hans-like behavior in deep learning models HSI classification 1. Proposed dataset Proposed model
2. LIME 2. Fashion MNIST
3. Pascal VOC 2007
Desai et al. (2019) GradCAM Study image features that contribute toward the classification Paddy rice's flowering panicle counter Developed dataset ResNet50
Dobrescu et al. (2019) 1. GBP Study of the features extracted in regression Count leaf of rosette plants Leaf counting challenge Tsaftaris and Scharr (2017) VGG16
2. LRP
Lu et al. (2021) Proposed visualization technique Human interpretable visualization of the learned features of the proposed model Count maize tassels, wheat ears, and rice plants 1. Lu et al., 2017 Proposed model
2. Madec et al., 2019
3. Liu et al., 2020
Drees et al. (2022) Proposed visualization Data augmentation Data augmentation Proposed dataset Proposed model