A comprehensive cotton leaf disease dataset for enhanced detection and classification.

Abstract

The creation and use of a comprehensive cotton leaf disease dataset offer significant benefits in agricultural research, precision farming, and disease management. This dataset enables the development of accurate machine learning models for early disease detection, reducing manual inspections and facilitating timely interventions. It serves as a benchmark for testing algorithms and training deep learning models, aiding in automated monitoring and decision support tools in precision agriculture. This leads to targeted interventions, reduced chemical use, and improved crop management. Global collaboration is fostered, contributing to the development of disease-resistant cotton varieties and effective management strategies, ultimately reducing economic losses and promoting sustainable farming. Field surveys conducted from October 2023 to January 2024 ensured meticulous image capture under diverse conditions. The images are categorized into eight classes, representing specific disease manifestations, pests, or environmental stress in cotton plants. The dataset comprises 2137 original images and 7000 augmented images, enhancing deep learning model training. The Inception V3 model demonstrated high performance, with an overall accuracy of 96.03 %. This underscores the dataset's potential in advancing automated disease detection in cotton agriculture.

Plant phenotyping relevance

綿花葉の病徴を画像で分類するデータセットを構築し、深層学習モデルのベンチマークとして評価しており、植物病害表現型の取得・解析が中心である。

Code and data availability

The paper is a Data in Brief article describing the authors' own cotton leaf disease image dataset (SAR-CLD-2024), publicly deposited on Mendeley Data with a direct URL and DOI provided in the article.