Table 8.

Plant species classification performance criteria: sensitivity, accuracy and specificity values, in both LDA and hybrid ANN-CA systems (test set). Plant class numbers: 1-Malva neglecta, 2-Xanthium strumarium, 3-Secale cereale L, 4-Chenopodium album L, 5-Solanum tuberosum (Marfona potato plant) and 6-Portulaca oleracea.

	LDA			Hybrid ANN-CA
Plant specie	Sensitivity (%)	Accuracy (%)	Specificity (%)	Sensitivity (%)	Accuracy (%)	Specificity (%)
1-Malva neglecta	96.01	95.97	92.63	99.33	99.26	98.35
2-Xanthium strumarium	85.02	88.33	78.45	97.91	98.64	97.57
3-Secale cereale L	98.47	98.82	94.16	98.47	99.79	100
4-Chenopodium album L	47.50	90.35	68.67	95.83	99.16	97.56
5-Solanum tuberosum (Marfona plant)	92.40	99.28	100	100	100	100
6-Portulaca oleracea	100	99.76	95.35	97.56	99.79	97.56