Detection of Potato Virus Y in plant foliage using convolutional neural network classifiers and hyperspectral imagery

Abstract

Solanum tuberosum (potato) is one of the most important global food crops relative to economic opportunities and food security. Potato Virus Y (Potyviridae, PVY), a detrimental plant pathogen propagated by insect vectors, negatively affects tuber yield and quality. This has forced industry stakeholders to adopt many different types of mitigation strategies including pesticide applications, manual field scouting, and potato seed certification programs. Despite these efforts, PVY continues to disrupt industry production regions resulting in significant economic losses due to the lack of robust diagnostic tools. Machine learning algorithms trained on remotely sensed spectral features show promise as a diagnostic tool for many plant diseases including PVY. This study proposes a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture to detect potato plant canopy regions of plants infected with PVY based on unmanned aerial system (UAS) hyperspectral pixel features comprised of bands matching the center wavelengths of nine spectral channels captured by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel 2 multispectral instrument. Accuracy and F1 metrics of 0.815 and 0.766 respectively were achieved on test data collected over multiple growing seasons and locations. Additionally, efforts were made to identify optimal combinations of spectral bands that are most beneficial for the CNN classifier by evaluating every possible combination of the nine spectral wavelengths in groups ranging from 3 to 9 channels. Results show that hyperspectral channels centered on 783 nm, 739 nm, and 560 nm are the most important features for the CNN architecture. Additionally, six hyperspectral features consisting of the three previously mentioned along with 665 nm, 704 nm, and 864 nm yielded the best results of all possible combinations achieving accuracy and F1 Score metrics of 0.833 and 0.791 respectively.

Plant phenotyping relevance

CNNとUASハイパースペクトル画像を用いて、PVY感染植物のキャノピー状態を検出する手法を開発・評価しており、植物病害表現型の取得が中心である。

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