Comparison of Artificial Neural Network and Multiple Linear Regression to Predict Cadmium Concentration in Rice: A Field Study in Guangxi, China

The translocation of cadmium (Cd) in the soil-rice system is complicated; therefore, most of the soil-plant models of Cd have not been extensively studied. Hence, we studied the back-propagation artificial neural network model (BP-ANN) and multiple regression model (MLR) to predict the cadmium (Cd) content in rice grain and soil through testing soil parameters. In this study, 486 pairs of rice grains and corresponding soil samples of 456 vectors were used for training + validation, and 30 vectors were collected from the southwestern karst area of Guangxi Province as a test data set. In this study, the Cd content in rice was successfully predicted by using the factors soil available cadmium (ACd), total soil cadmium (TCd), soil organic matter (SOM), and pH, which have a more significant impact on rice, as the main prediction variables. Root mean square error (RMSE), Relative Percent Difference (RPD), and correlation coefficient (R2) were used to assess the models. The R2, RPD, and RMSE values for RCd medium obtained by the MLR model with pH, TCd, and ACd as entered variables were 0.551, 2.398, and 0.049, respectively. The R2 and RMSE values for RCd medium obtained by the BP-ANN model with pH, TCd, and ACd as entered variables were 0.6846, 2.778, and 0.104, respectively. Therefore, it was concluded that BP-ANN was useful in predicting RCd and had better performance than MLR.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Toxics

• Publication date

  2025-07-30

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3390/toxics13080645PMID 40863920PMCID 12389859
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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