Exploring Deep Learning Approaches For Citrus Diseases Detection and Classification: A Review
Exploring Deep Learning Approaches For Citrus Diseases Detection and Classification: A Review
Exploring Deep Learning Approaches For Citrus Diseases Detection and Classification: A Review
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Abstract:- Citrus diseases pose significant threats to USA, Mexico, and Spain. Including numerous other tropical
global agriculture, impacting crop yield and quality. In and subtropical areas across the globe. (Agusti et al., 2013).
recent years the integration of deep learning models has
surfaced as a hopeful method for classifying and Contemporary technologies have empowered human
detecting diseases. This review critically analyzes and society to generate sufficient food to satisfy the needs of
synthesizes 25 research works that explore various deep over 7 billion individuals. Nevertheless, food security
learning models applications in citrus disease detection continues to face threats from various factors, with climate
and classification. The methodology involves a change being a significant concern (mohanty et al., 2016).
systematic literature search, filtering based on relevance,
publication date, and language. The selected works are The current challenges in citrus production include;
categorized, and each is analyzed for contributions and adverse weather conditions or climate changes, pest and
limitations. The review identifies limitations, notably the diseases, availability of arable land, access to technology,
reliance on limited datasets leading to issues of lack of government support etc (Christopher & Udoh, n.d.,
generalization and class imbalance. Data augmentation, 2020)
while employed, lacks comprehensive evaluation. Citrus diseases pose significant threats to global
Practical implementation in real-world agricultural agriculture, affecting crop yield and quality. Over the past
settings remains a challenge, demanding scalable, few years, the incorporation of deep learning models has
adaptable, and robust solutions. Future research surfaced as a promising method for detecting and classifying
directions are proposed to address limitations. Emphasis these diseases. this literature review aims to critically
is placed on curating larger and diverse datasets, actively analyze and synthesize 25 research works that delve into the
mitigating class imbalance, and rigorously evaluating utilization of diverse deep learning models in the context of
data augmentation techniques. detecting and classifying citrus diseases.
Keywords:- Citrus Diseases, Deep Learning, Disease Deep learning finds widespread application not only in
Detection, Disease Classification. image processing, recognition, and classification but also
extends its influence to various domains, including
I. INTRODUCTION agriculture. In comparing to earlier artificial neural network
approaches, deep learning demonstrates superior accuracy in
Presently, citrus stands as the predominant fruit tree recognition and effectively tackles challenges related to
crop globally, accounting for 104 million tons over 7.1 image classification and visualization. Consequently, it is
million hectares. This production is predominantly currently recognized as the most promising technology in
concentrated in countries such as Brazil, China, India, the the contemporary agricultural sector. (liu et al., 2021).
(Raaj & Selvy, n.d.) Introduced a detection system for (Çeti̇ ner et al., 2023) introduced a three deep learning
citrus fruit and leaf diseases using the YOLO classifier. The models employing three distinct approaches for the
proposed YOLO classifier model targets common citrus classification of citrus leave diseases, proposed denseNet,
diseases and demonstrates superior performance compared basic denseNet201 and 21-layer convolutional neural
to other deep learning approaches. The methodology network models were used. The study utilizes a dataset
involves a CNN, Gaussian Feature extraction and YOLO containing Images depicting diseases in citrus leaves,
Classifier, with training images undergoing grayscale including HLB (Huanglongbing), CBS (Citrus Black Spot),
conversion and binary image classification. and CBC (Citrus Canker) with preprocessing steps like
resizing, standardization, and data augmentation. An Results show improved accuracy through data
accuracy of 95% was achieved for the proposed augmentation, and MobileNetV2 proves effective for real-
denseNet201 while 99% accuracy was achieved for the time disease identification. The model was able to achieve
CNN model. an accuracy oof 87.28%.
(Luaibi et al., 2021) introduce a two ways conventional (Elaraby et al., 2022) suggested AlexNet and VGG19,
neural network, AlexNet and ResNet architectures both with using transfer learning to enhance efficiency. The process
and without the application of data augmentation, which involves scaling and augmenting disease images, The
focuses on the early detection of citrus leaf diseases. A self- proposed approach is assessed using both the citrus disease
compiled dataset comprising 200 images encompassing image gallery dataset and the combined dataset, which
healthy leaves and diseases such as nutrient deficiency, includes citrus image datasets of infested scale and Plant
Phyllocnistis citrella and scale insects is used. The Results Village. The approach achieves 94% total performance.
reveal that models trained with the incorporation of data
augmentation achieve the highest accuracy, with ResNet at (Dai et al., 2023) Proposed an improved FastGAN
95.83% and AlexNet at 97.92%. (FastGAN2) for image generation and an Enhanced
EfficientNet-B5 (EfficientNet-B5-pro) for classification.
(Khattak et al., 2021) employed a convolutional neural FastGAN2 is designed to generate diverse and realistic
network model with the aim to distinguish between healthy citrus disease images, overcoming issues of small and
fruits and leaves and those affected by prevalent citrus unevenly distributed datasets. The proposed EfficientNet-
diseases such as black spot, greening, canker, scab, and B5-pro incorporates Arcface loss and adversarial weight
melanose. The convolutional neural network architecture perturbation, enhancing its performance in disease
includes preprocessing, two convolutional layers, max- classification.it demonstrates that FastGAN2 can be trained
pooling, flattening, and classification. With a Citrus and with only 50 images, producing 8000 images with improved
PlantVillage datasets, the model demonstrated a quality. Classification networks, trained exclusively on
commendable test accuracy of 94.55%. images generated by FastGAN2, achieve high accuracy rates
exceeding 93%. EfficientNet-B5-pro exhibits superior
(Mudholakar et al., 2022) introduced a CNN model for performance compared to EfficientNet-B5, with accuracy,
the detecting citrus fruit and leaves diseases. The proposed scores of 97.04%.
system integrates various image processing steps and
employs a convolutional neural network to differentiate (Yadav et al., 2022) employed hyperspectral imaging
healthy citrus plant and the ones with diseases, such as along with an artificial intelligence algorithm to classify
canker, citrus blight and black spot. The convolutional eight distinct peel conditions on citrus fruit. The method
neural network model, inspired by AlexNet architecture, involved selecting discriminative bands using Principal
achieves promising training and validation accuracies above Component Analysis (PCA) and training a custom CNN
85% and 90%, respectively. The system was implemented modeled on the VGG-16 architecture designed for
using the Django framework for a user-friendly interface. classification. The PCA-selected bands achieved high
accuracy (99.84%), sensitivity (99.84%), and specificity
(Çetiner, 2022b) introduce A distinctive CNN-based (99.98%). Additionally, a CNN using randomly selected
architecture developed for the detection and classification of bands demonstrated slightly lower but still substantial
black spot, greening and canker diseases. Using a publicly performance achieving an accuracy of 98.87%.
available Citrus Leaves Prepared dataset and employs
preprocessing techniques, including histogram equalization (Dhiman et al., 2023) introduces an efficient model
and data augmentation, the proposed model achieved high design for predicting diseases in citrus fruit by fusing LSTM
average values of 95% for F1-score, 96% for Precision, 95% and CNN with edge computing. Using citrus dataset form
for Recall, and 96% for Accuracy. Kaggle with 2950 images, the proposed CNN-LSTM model
demonstrates superior disease detection capabilities. With
(Senthilkumar & Kamarasan, 2021) proposed a Magnitude Based Pruning and Post Quantization technique
segmentation process based on Otsu using an Inception the model attained an accuracy of 97.18% and 98.25%,
ResNet V2 based approach to detect and classify citrus The surpassing the baseline CNN method. The multi-phase
methodology was evaluated on the dataset from citrus image approach involves data collection, pre-processing, re-
gallery, showcasing a notable accuracy of 99.13%. The key scaling, data augmentation, and image segmentation.
processes involved in the proposed model are preprocessing, Evaluation parameters like accuracy, recall, precision and F-
segmentation, extracting features through the Inception score highlight the model's effectiveness across various
ResNet v2 model and performing classification using a disease classes, ranging from 94.65% to 99.05%.
Random Forest (RF) classifier.
(Faisal et al., 2023) introduced an automatic system
(Liu et al., 2021) used a mobileNet V2 as the main aimed at detection and classification disease of citrus plant,
network and conducting a comparative analysis with other utilizing deep learning models, particularly focusing on
networks based on model accuracy, speed and speed. The transfer learning. Four pre trained CNN models
study involves dataset enhancement techniques and (EfficientNetB3, MobiNetV2, ResNet50 and InceptionV3)
compares MobileNetV2's performance with other networks. were utilized to the citrus dataset, demonstrating improved
accuracy and reduced computational complexity. The Whale Optimization Algorithm, and outperforms individual
suggested methodology involves data collection, data models. The experiments involve a dataset of 279 images,
augmentation, image pre-processing, extracting deep CNN six disease classes, and various classifiers, demonstrating
features through transfer learning, and final classification. the efficacy of the proposed framework in enhancing citrus
The study identifies EfficientNetB3 as the most effective disease classification accuracy for practical agricultural
model, achieving training, validating, and testing accuracies applications.
of 99.43%, 99.48%, and 99.58%, respectively.
(Shireesha & Reddy, 2022) Suggested a DenseNet-121
(Shermila et al., 2024) Proposed a customized CNN- model with the objective of discerning between healthy
based model, integrating CNN with LSTM, to automatically citrus leaves and fruits and those afflicted by diseases such
detect and classify diseases in citrus fruits and leaves. The as black spot, greening, scab, and canker. The dataset
research focuses on identifying illnesses such as fruit blight, included images from the Plant Village Dataset and Citrus
fruit greening, fruit scab, and melanoses. The suggested Dataset, classified into black spot, canker, greening, scab,
model demonstrates excellent performance, achieving a 96% and healthy categories. By employing the DenseNet-121
accuracy in identifying and classifying citrus fruit and architecture and pre-training with ImageNet over 50 epochs,
leaves. The dataset encompasses both healthy and diseased the model achieved a commendable accuracy of 96%,
citrus leaves and fruits from diverse origins. The effectively tackling challenges like degradation and
architecture of CNN-LSTM incorporates convolutional vanishing gradient.
layers, max-pooling layers, fully connected layers, and an
LSTM layer. (Kalim et al., 2022) Introduced a hybrid model,
integrating a CNN for feature extraction and a Random
(Janarthan et al., 2020) Presented is a compact deep Forest (RF) for classification. The dataset comprised 58
metric learning architecture tailored for precise detection of images of healthy and 536 images of unhealthy instances
citrus diseases, specifically crafted for devices with limited involving Black Spot, Canker, and Greening. The VGG16-
resources such as mobile phones. The suggested framework Random Forest algorithm demonstrated optimal
comprises a classification network based on patches, performance, achieving an accuracy of 87%, outperforming
featuring an embedding module, cluster prototype module, ResNet50-Random Forest (83%) and InceptionV3-Random
and a neural network classifier. The process involves pre- Forest (80%). The model's flow involved CNN as a feature
processing, embedding calculation, K-Means clustering, and extractor, utilizing VGG16, ResNet50, and InceptionV3,
patch embedding computation. Evaluation on citrus and tea followed by RF for classification.
leaf datasets demonstrates the model's efficiency, achieving
a 95.04% detection accuracy. (Subramani et al., 2023) focuses on identifying and
categorizing diseases in citrus leaves using deep learning
(Jasim et al., 2022) Introduce a CNN model for architectures, including ResNet50, ResNet101, VGG16, and
recognizing citrus diseases using a dataset that comprises of VGG19. With a dataset of 609 images featuring Black Spot,
2450 sample of images with seven disease classes. The Greening, Canker, Melanose and Healthy classes, the pre
CNN structure comprises pooling, convolutional and fully trained ResNet50 achieves a very good accuracy of 96.8%
connected layers. The system achieves an 88% recognition and negligible loss (0.1573). The ResNet models, known for
accuracy for citrus diseases, and the study discusses the deep convolution and skip connections, prove powerful in
impact of optimization algorithms and data augmentation on addressing the vanishing gradient problem.
model performance.
(Challagundla et al., 2023) Proposed Inception V3,
(Huang et al., 2023) presented a proficient diagnostic VGG16, SqueezeNet and machine learning classifiers
system for citrus fruit diseases based on CNN. The model (Neural Network, Random Forest, KNN, Gradient Boosting,
integrates the Inception module with EfficientNetV2 to SGD). A dataset with 759 images (80 healthy, 679 diseased)
improve multi-scale feature extraction. VGG replaces the U- of citrus diseases is used. Image embedding is performed
Net backbone, resulting in enhanced segmentation using pre-trained CNN models, and machine learning
performance. Findings demonstrate a recognition accuracy classifiers are applied for disease prediction. The neural
exceeding 95%, with VGG-U-Net achieving the highest network utilizing Inception V3 attains the highest average
segmentation accuracy at 87.66%. The dataset encompasses accuracy of 96.6%.
800 images of citrus fruit affected by black spot and canker
diseases. Transfer learning is employed, utilizing pre-trained (Khan et al., 2021) proposed a deep learning approach
weights from ImageNet, to enhance classification to categorize six distinct citrus diseases affecting the yield
performance. and quality of citrus fruits. The dataset undergoes data
augmentation to enhance it, subsequently used for the
(Ur Rehman et al., 2021) proposed a pair of pre-trained retraining of two lightweight pre-trained deep learning
models, MobileNetV2 and DenseNet201 for the models: SqueezeNet and MobileNetV2. Features are
classification of citrus plant disease, image augmentation, extracted and optimized using the Whale Optimization
and feature fusion. The technique achieves a notable Algorithm (WOA). SqueezeNet surpasses MobileNetV2,
classification accuracy of 95.7%. It addresses data scarcity achieving a classification accuracy of 96%.
through image augmentation, optimizes features using the
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