Pollen Grain Classification Based on Ensemble Transfer Learning on the Cretan Pollen Dataset.
Plants (Basel)
; 11(7)2022 Mar 29.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35406899
ABSTRACT
Pollen identification is an important task for the botanical certification of honey. It is performed via thorough microscopic examination of the pollen present in honey; a process called melissopalynology. However, manual examination of the images is hard, time-consuming and subject to inter- and intra-observer variability. In this study, we investigated the applicability of deep learning models for the classification of pollen-grain images into 20 pollen types, based on the Cretan Pollen Dataset. In particular, we applied transfer and ensemble learning methods to achieve an accuracy of 97.5%, a sensitivity of 96.9%, a precision of 97%, an F1 score of 96.89% and an AUC of 0.9995. However, in a preliminary case study, when we applied the best-performing model on honey-based pollen-grain images, we found that it performed poorly; only 0.02 better than random guessing (i.e., an AUC of 0.52). This indicates that the model should be further fine-tuned on honey-based pollen-grain images to increase its effectiveness on such data.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Plants (Basel)
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Greece