<![CDATA[Corn leaf diseases are one of the main factors contributing to decreased corn productivity. Manual identification of leaf diseases remains subjective, time-consuming, and highly dependent on individual experience. This study aims to improve the performance of image-based corn leaf disease classification through the integration of data balancing techniques, deep feature extraction, and machine learning-based classification methods. The dataset consists of four classes with an imbalanced distribution, namely Blight with 802 images, Common Rust with 914 images, Gray Leaf Spot with 401 images, and Healthy with 813 images, where GrayLeaf Spot represents the minority class. Data balancing is performed by generating synthetic images using a convolution-based generative model to increase the number of samples in the minority class. Furthermore, feature extraction is carried out using the EfficientNetB0 architecture, and classification is performed using a gradient boosting-based algorithm. There sults show that the proposed approach improves accuracy from 92.49 percent to 93.29 percent and enhances the model’s ability to recognize the minority class, as indicated by an increase in recall from 69 percent to 78 percent and an improvement in performance balance from 0.76to 0.84. These findings indicate that the proposed method is effective in improving classification performance, particularly for the minority class, without reducing performance on majority classes.]]>
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