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HIGHLIGHTS
  • Focus on major regional diseases prevalent in the Caribbean
  • Applied advanced image preprocessing to improve image quality
  • Extracted comprehensive features including color histograms, LBP and GLCM
  • Trained 11,979 images from PlantVillage dataset and achieved an accuracy of 97.20%
  • Effective and accurate disease identification achieved with XGBoost
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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important vegetable crop, which is susceptible to multiple diseases that can impact yield and produce quality. The current research aims to classify major tomato diseases in the Caribbean region through an intelligent system developed. The system is based on six key diseases including bacterial spot, early blight, late blight, septoria leaf spot, yellow leaf curl virus, and mosaic virus. To improve the identification accuracy, all images were first resized and then segmented using the GrabCut method to isolate the leaf regions. The segmented images were subsequently converted to HSV color space and grayscale before feature extraction was performed. A total of 96 features were extracted, including color histograms, Local Binary Pattern (LBP), and Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM). The Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm was employed for disease identification. This study uses a dataset of 11,979 images from the PlantVillage collection, including both healthy and diseased samples, and the developed model achieved a disease identification accuracy of 97.20% while remaining computationally efficient.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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