Rangamati Science and Technology University

Computer Science and Engineering

Presentation On
Therapeutic plant leaf disease detection

Submitted To Submitted By
Juel Sikder Antu Das
Associate professor Reg No: 2017-14-24
Dept. of CSE, RMSTU Session: 2017-18
Table Of Content
● Abstuct
● Introduction
● Rational of study
● Hypothesis
● Objectives
● Literature review
● Research gap
● Proposed methodology
● Expect result of proposed system
● Conclusion and future work
● References
 Abstract
Therapeutic plants are commonly used for food, flavoring, medicine or fragrant. Some most
important therapeutic plants are Pathor kuchi (Kalanchoe pinnata), Haritaki (Terminalia chebula),
Thankuni (Centella asiatica), Neem (Azadirachta indica), Tulsi (Ocimum tenniflorum), Lemon
grass and Aloe vera, Vasaka (Adhatoda vasica). On the other hand most of the tribal people still
depend on local medicinal plants for the treatment of different diseases using the knowledge of
herbal treatment they have inherited from their forefathers. The demand of therapeutic plants as raw
material for pharmaceutical industry is increasing in our country like all over the world. This plants
have been used to treat diseases since ancient times but day by day viruses can be transmitted by
insects feeding on plant sap or mechanically in sap that is spread by hand or grafting tools. So, aim
to study the implementation, design and evaluate by using Image segmentation with for the
detection of herbal leaves disease. The methods studies are for increasing throughput and reduction
subjective arising from human experts in detecting the leaf disease.

Keywords- Therapeutic Plant disease, Image processing

 Introduction
There are various species of plants in the world. A therapeutic plant leaves are one of them differ in
color, shape and size according to the cause. Leaf batches happen as a result of plant pathogens
(Fungi, Bacteria and viruses. A medicinal plant is considered an important source of prevention
against various diseases. The essential medicine component is extracted from different parts of the
plants. In underdeveloped countries, people use medicinal plants as a substitute for medicine. In fact,
about 80% to 90% of disease on the plant is appeared on its leaves. So we interest in the plant leaf
rather than whole plant. In this paper, a disease recognition method is proposed and the major steps
of plant disease identification are introduced. In our disease recognition method, to ensure the high
disease recognition accuracy, we need to segment the disease leaf image and obtain the spot images
before extracting the recognition features, and the ultimate goal of segmentation is to separate leaf
from the back-ground and obtain the spot of leaf. Some disease images of therapeutic leaves are –

Fig : Aloevera, Lemongrass, Vasaka, Mint, Tulsi

 Rational of study
Because of therapeutic plant diseases the quality and the health safety is being affected. The
use of medicinal herbs treats a variety of human disorders. Before the development of
iatrochemistry in the 16th century, treatment and prevention of many diseases were provided
by plants. However, the use of natural medicinal plants has come back into the spotlight due
to the declining effectiveness of synthetic drugs and the rising number of side effects
associated with their use. Some diseases can be seen by human eyes. The plant diseases like
pathogen, microorganisms which are living, bacterial problem, fungi infected plant,
nematodes, viruses affected problems in plants cannot be easily detect by human eyes. In our
disease recognition method, to ensure the high disease recognition accuracy, we need to
segment the disease leaf and obtain the spot images before extracting the recognition
features, and the ultimate goal of segmentation is to separate leaf from the back-ground and
obtain the spot of leaf. Here, image processing plays an important role. With the help of
image analysis we will process the images of the plants and detect the plant leaves disease.
 Hypothesis
Crafting research questions is a critical step in the process of investigating medicinal plant
leaf disease detection. Here are some potential research questions that can guide this study:

1. How effective are advanced image processing techniques in detecting various types of leaf
diseases in therapeutic plants?
2. What are the specific characteristics of medicinal plant leaf diseases that can be accurately
identified using image analysis and machine learning algorithms
?
3. How does the integration of spectral imaging technology contribute to the early detection
and differentiation of leaf diseases in medicinal plants?

4. What is the comparative analysis between manual diagnosis by experts and automated
disease detection systems for medicinal plant leaves in terms of accuracy and efficiency?

5. How can the development of a comprehensive dataset comprising various types of

medicinal plant leaf diseases facilitate the training and validation of machine learning
models for disease detection?
 Objectives
Here are some objectives which can consider including in this study:

1. Identification and Characterization of therapeutic Plant Leaf Diseases: To identify, classify, and
characterize diseases that affect therapeutic plants, particularly focusing on their symptoms, causes.
2. Development: To explore and develop effective disease management and control strategies for preserving
the health and productivity of medicinal plants.
3. Conservation: To study the impact of diseases on the biodiversity and conservation status of therapeutic
plant species.
4. Development of Diagnostic Tools: To create diagnostic tools and methods for early disease detection in
medicinal plants to facilitate timely intervention.
5. Traditional Medicine and Healthcare System: To explore the impact of plant diseases on traditional
medicine and healthcare systems on medicinal plants.
6. Knowledge Dissemination and Education: To share research findings with local communities, healthcare
practitioners, and policy makers.
7. Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing: To foster collaboration with researchers, botanists, ethno-botanists,
and other stakeholders interested in therapeutic plant research.
 Literature Review
(1) Ghaiwat et al. presents survey on different classification techniques that can be used for plant leaf disease
classification. For given test example, k-nearest-neighbor method is seems to be suitable as well as simplest
of all algorithms for class prediction. Accuracy rate is 89.2%.
Goals: Review of ANN, SVM, PNN, SELF ORG MAPS and fuzzy logic.
Future perspective: In neural network it’s difficult to understand structure of algorithm and to determine
optimal parameters when training data is not linearly separable.

(2) Anand H. Kulkarni et al presents a methodology for early and accurately plant diseases detection, using
artificial neural network (ANN) and diverse image processing techniques.
Recognition rate of up to 91%.
Goals: Gabor filters for feature extraction and ANN classifier for classification.
Future perspective: Recognition rate can be increased.

(3) According to Sabah Bashir et al, disease detection in Malus domestica through an effective method like
K-mean clustering, texture and color analysis.
Goals: Texture segmentation by co-occurrence matrix method and K-means clustering technique.
Future perspective: Bayes classifier, K-means clustering and principal component classifier can be used to
classify various plant diseases.
 Research Gap
Identify current techniques: Analyze the current techniques and methodologies used for detecting leaf
diseases in therapeutic plants. Look for the limitations or drawbacks associated with these methods.

Technology advancements: Explore if there have been any recent advancements in imaging technologies,
machine learning, or artificial intelligence that could potentially improve the accuracy and efficiency of
disease detection in medicinal plant leaves.

Therapeutic plant diversity: Consider the wide variety of therapeutic plants and their specific leaf disease
patterns. Identify if there are gaps in the detection methods for different types of medicinal plants,
particularly those that have unique leaf characteristics.

Data availability: Look into the availability of datasets related to leaf diseases in therapeutic plants. Identify
if there is a lack of standardized datasets that can be used for training and testing various disease detection
models.
Integration of field studies: Assess the integration of field studies with technological approaches. Investigate
if there is a need for more field-based research to validate the accuracy and practicality of the disease
detection methods in real-world settings.
 Proposed Methodology
Therapeutic Plant leaf categorization, segmentation, and quality assessment are the focus of many researches.
Below figure represents therapeutic plant leaf disease recognition which entails a few basic image processing
stages to identify and classify plant. This approach includes the phases image processing, image segmentation,
component extraction, and classification.

Images of therapeutic leaves

1. Input images
2. Image acquisition
3. Leaf image dataset
4. Image processing
5. Dataset splitting
6. Training set
7. Validation
8. Disease detection
9. Disease training
10. Performance assessment
11. Plant leaf image
12. classification
Figure 1: Diagram of proposed methodology
 Expected Result Of Proposed Methodology

Fig 2: (a) Original image (b) Segmented image Fig 3: (a) Original image (b) Segmented image
 Conclusion and Future Work
This Study provides the survey of different techniques for leaf disease detection. There is main
characteristics of disease detection are speed and accuracy. Hence there is working on development of
automatic, efficient, fast and accurate which is use for detection disease on unhealthy leaf. Therapeutic
Plants disease detection research and applications is developing rapidly, still needed an application that
works effectively for farmer of the nation of any region. In future research, we will use the neural
network to generate zero initial set corresponding to different leaves, which will increase the end of
calculation limit for the iterative process of some algorithm, speed up the training speed, and end the
iteration ahead of time. As per the above stated study, the expected future of the research may be as
follows: (i) An improved plant disease prediction system will be introduced with the help of image,
processing techniques. (ii) The existing prediction models will be compared with the newly developed
one. The comparison between these models will be analyzed on behalf of effectiveness.

The future work mainly concerns with the large database and advance feature of color extraction that
contains a better result of detection. Another work concerns with research work in a particular field with
advance features and technology.
 References
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(3) Bashir Sabah, Sharma Navdeep. Remote area plant disease detection using image processing.
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