Brinjal leaf diseases detection based on discrete Shearlet transform and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Different diseases are observed in vegetables, fruits, cereals, and commercial crops by farmers and agricultural experts. Nonetheless, this evaluation process is time-consuming, and initial symptoms are primarily visible at microscopic levels, limiting the possibility of an accurate diagnosis. This paper proposes an innovative method for identifying and classifying infected brinjal leaves using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) and Radial Basis Feed Forward Neural Networks (RBFNN). We collected 1100 images of brinjal leaf disease that were caused by five different species (Pseudomonas solanacearum, Cercospora solani, Alternaria melongenea, Pythium aphanidermatum, and Tobacco Mosaic Virus) and 400 images of healthy leaves from India's agricultural form. First, the original plant leaf is preprocessed by a Gaussian filter to reduce the noise and improve the quality of the image through image enhancement. A segmentation method based on expectation and maximization (EM) is then utilized to segment the leaf's-diseased regions. Next, the discrete Shearlet transform is used to extract the main features of the images such as texture, color, and structure, which are then merged to produce vectors. Lastly, DCNN and RBFNN are used to classify brinjal leaves based on their disease types. The DCNN achieved a mean accuracy of 93.30% (with fusion) and 76.70% (without fusion) compared to the RBFNN (82%-without fusion, 87%-with fusion) in classifying leaf diseases.

Plant phenotyping relevance

ブリンジャル葉の病斑領域を画像から抽出・分類する手法が研究の中心であり、植物病害状態の表現型測定に該当する。

Code and data availability

The paper's brinjal leaf image dataset (1500 images) is paper-specific but explicitly restricted from open sharing; access requires contacting the named person at ACRI. No public code, models, or other qualifying assets are described.

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