A Comprehensive Review on Plant Leaf Disease Detection Systems Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques

Abstract

The problems of plant leaf disease are rather serious in the world agricultural industry, leading to a significant decrease in crop quantity and quality, consequently, resulting in a huge loss in the economy and food insecurity. Detection and successful classification of plant diseases at the initial stage is essential to further agricultural output and the quality production of food. The recent improvements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), have shown significant prospects in automating and enhancing methods of diagnosing plant leaf diseases by using a wide variety of ML and DL algorithms. This review article presents an in-depth analysis of thirty novel methods created by researchers to diagnose and classify plant leaf diseases. They are such conventional classifiers as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forests (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), along with some advanced DL architectures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), VGG16, ResNet50, InceptionResNetV2, EfficientNet, and various hybrids. The review analysis takes into consideration the methodologies applied, performance metrics, and insights in practice, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of both. The most crucial findings of the review show that deep learning models, and CNNs in particular, tend to be more accurate, robust, and feature extractors than traditional models of MLs. The performance of classification is also enhanced by numerous hybrid models that will use ML together with DL, and transfer learning has been an effective method to enhance the generalization using small datasets. Nevertheless, with all this progress, the issues of diversity of datasets, computational resource requirements and model interpretability are still to be explored in the future.

Plant phenotyping relevance

植物葉の病徴を画像から検出・分類する機械学習手法を体系的に比較するレビューであり、植物状態の取得・推定手法が中心である。

Code and data availability

This is a review article with no original phenotyping measurements or analysis. The Data Availability Statement explicitly states no new datasets were generated or analyzed, and no author code, models, or paper-specific data assets are provided.

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