A Comprehensive Review on Crop Disease Prediction Based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques

Abstract

Leaf diseases cause direct crop losses in agriculture, and farmers cannot detect the disease early. If the diseases are not detected early and correctly, the farmer must undergo huge losses. It may lead to the wrong pesticide or over pesticide, directly affect crop productivity and economy, and indirectly affect human health. Sensitive crops have various leaf diseases, and early prediction of these diseases remains challenging. This paper reviews several machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods used for different crop disease segmentation and classification. In the last few years, computer vision and DL techniques have made tremendous progress in object detection and image classification. The study summaries the available research on different diseases on various crops based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques. It also discusses the data sets used for research and the accuracy and performance of existing methods. It does mean that the methods and available data sets presented in this paper are not projected to replace published solutions for crop disease identification, perhaps to enhance them by finding the possible gaps. Seventy-five articles are analysed and reviewed to find essential issues that involve additional study for future research in this domain to promote continuous progress for data sets, methods, and techniques. It mainly focuses on image segmentation and classification techniques used to solve agricultural problems. Finally, this paper provides future research scope and challenges, limitations, and research gaps.