Karla Liliana Puga-Nathal

Dr. Karla Liliana Puga-Nathal


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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21 October 2025 in Agriengineering
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Raquel Ochoa OrnelasRaquel Ochoa Ornelas
Raquel Ochoa Ornelas
Alberto Gudiño-OchoaAlberto Gudiño-Ochoa
Alberto Gudiño-Ochoa
Ansel Yoan Rodríguez GonzálezAnsel Yoan Rodríguez González
Ansel Yoan Rodríguez González
Leonardo TrujilloLeonardo Trujillo
Leonardo Trujillo
Daniel Fajardo-DelgadoDaniel Fajardo-Delgado
Daniel Fajardo-Delgado
KPKarla Liliana Puga-Nathal
Karla Liliana Puga-Nathal
Background/Objectives: Strawberry crops are vulnerable to fungal diseases that severely affect yield and quality. Deep learning has shown strong potential for plant disease recognition; however, most architectures rely on tens of millions of parameters, limiting their use in low-resource agricultural settings. This study presents Light-MobileBerryNet, a lightweight and interpretable model designed to achieve accurate strawberry disease classification while remaining computationally efficient for potential use on mobile and edge devices. Methods: The model, inspired by MobileNetV3-Small, integrates inverted residual blocks, depthwise separable convolutions, squeeze-and-excitation modules, and Swish activation to enhance efficiency. A publicly available dataset was processed using CLAHE and data augmentation, and split into training, validation, and test subsets under consistent conditions. Performance was benchmarked against state-of-the-art CNNs. Results: Light-MobileBerryNet achieved 96.6% accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, with a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.96, while requiring fewer than one million parameters (~2 MB). Grad-CAM confirmed that predictions focused on biologically relevant lesion regions. Conclusions: Light-MobileBerryNet approaches state-of-the-art performance with a fraction of the computational cost, providing a practical and interpretable solution for precision agriculture.