# Optimized Deep Learning for Potato Blight Detection Using the Waterwheel Plant Algorithm and Sine Cosine Algorithm

*PRI Rank #6 · Topics and Trends in Most Cited Potato Plant Research Papers, Class of 2026*

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| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Rank | #6 |
| 18m citations | 29 |
| Journal | Potato Research |
| Year | 2024 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11540-024-09735-y |
| Corresponding authors | Marwa Radwan |
| Institution | Suez University, Egypt |

**Ranking page:** [Topics and Trends in Most Cited Potato Plant Research Papers, Class of 2026](https://pri.pepkio.com/top-papers/potato-plant-research/2026)

**Paper link:** [10.1007/s11540-024-09735-y](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11540-024-09735-y)

## Topics

Late blight · Phytophthora infestans · ResNet-50 · GoogLeNet · AlexNet · VGG19Net · feature extraction · WWPASC · WWPASC · feature selection · Decision Tree · Random Forest · multilayer perceptron · Support Vector Machine · K-nearest neighbors (KNN) · hyperparameter optimization · WWPASC-MLP · deep learning classification · plant disease detection

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