A novel plant leaf disease detection by adaptive fuzzy C-Means clustering with deep neural network.

The contribution of a plant is most significant for both human life and nature. The plant diseases affect whole plants, including leaves, stems, fruit, root, and flower. However, conventional approaches enclosed human involvement in classifying and identifying diseases. This process takes more time to complete a task. The main intention of this paper is to effectively develop a deep structured architecture for the detection of plant leaf diseases by introducing intelligent techniques, which have several processing steps. As a major contribution, Adaptive Fuzzy C-Means Clustering (FCM) is adopted for the abnormality segmentation. Moreover, the Improved Deep Neural Network (I-DNN) has achieved the greatest strength in enhancing the performance of plant leaf disease recognition. Here, Newly Updated Moth-Flame Optimization (NU-MFO) is utilised for enhancing the classification efficiency through a valuable objective function. The recommended method achieves higher accuracy rate in the recognition of diseases when compared to the baseline approaches. The precision of the NU-MFO-I-DNN at 85% learning rate is 0.01%, 0.26%, 0.07%, and 0.28% higher than MFO-I-DNN, GWO-I-DNN, SSO-I-DNN, and PSO-I-DNN, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]