Potato Leaf Disease Classification using Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network

Agricultural production is one of the main sources of income in most countries. Enormous losses will be incurred if agricultural product is disturbed by plant disease. The key to reduce losses in agricultural product output and quantity is early detection of plant diseases. A diseased plant usually reflecting its disease by showing symptoms on its leaves. A potato leaf disease classification technique by using image processing and artificial neural network method is proposed in this study. The method can be used to determine the potato leaf is either healthy or diseased. With the aid of this technique, farmers can save time and cost in their farming activities. The main goal of this study is to detect potato plant (Solanum tuberosum L.) disease using image processing techniques. The K-Means clustering algorithm is used to segment the disease in potato leaf image. The segmented features of potato leaf disease are then extracted by using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and these features are then fed into ANN for classification. With the proposed system, classification accuracy obtained is 94%.