Unlocking plant health survey data: an approach to quantify the sensitivity and specificity of visual inspections
Matt Combes, Nathan Brown, Robin N. Thompson, Alexander Mastin, P. Crow, Stephen Parnell
This paper quantifies the sensitivity and specificity of visual plant health surveys using citizen scientists and Bayesian modeling to estimate these metrics without a gold-standard dataset.
PLoS Computational Biology · Nov 20, 2025Peer-reviewedEcology