The prediction of chlorophyll content in African leaves (Vernonia amygdalina Del.) using flatbed scanner and optimised artificial neural network

Rachma Nurul, . and Damayanti Retno, . and Al Riza Dimas Firmanda, . and Hendrawan Yusuf, . The prediction of chlorophyll content in African leaves (Vernonia amygdalina Del.) using flatbed scanner and optimised artificial neural network. pp. 2509-2530. ISSN 2231-8526

African leaves (Vernonia amygdalina Del.) is a nutrient-rich plant that has been widely used as a herbal plant. African leaves contain chlorophyll which identify compounds produced by a plant such as flavonoids and phenols. Chlorophyll testing can be carried out nondestructively by using the SPAD 502 chlorophyll meter. However it is quite expensive so that another non-destructive method is developed namely digital image analysis. Relationships between chlorophyll content and leaf image colour indices in the RGB HSV HSL and Lab space are examined. The objectives of this study are 1) to analyse the relationship between texture parameters of red green blue grey hue saturation(HSL) lightness (HSL) saturation( HSV) value(HSV) L a and b against the chlorophyll content in African leaves using a flatbed scanner (HP DeskJet 2130 Series); and 2) built a model to predict chlorophyll content in African leaves using optimised ANN through a feature selection process by using several filter methods. The best ANN topologies are 10-30-40-1 (10 input nodes 40 nodes in hidden layer 1 30 nodes in hidden layer 2 and 1 output node) with a trainlm on the learning function tansig on the hidden layer and purelin on the output layer. The selected topology produces MSE training of 0.0007 with R training 0.9981 and the lowest validation MSE of 0.012 with R validation of 0.967. With these results it can be concluded that the ANN model can be potentially used as a model for predicting chlorophyll content in African leaves.

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Abstract

African leaves (Vernonia amygdalina Del.) is a nutrient-rich plant that has been widely used as a herbal plant. African leaves contain chlorophyll which identify compounds produced by a plant such as flavonoids and phenols. Chlorophyll testing can be carried out nondestructively by using the SPAD 502 chlorophyll meter. However it is quite expensive so that another non-destructive method is developed namely digital image analysis. Relationships between chlorophyll content and leaf image colour indices in the RGB HSV HSL and Lab space are examined. The objectives of this study are 1) to analyse the relationship between texture parameters of red green blue grey hue saturation(HSL) lightness (HSL) saturation( HSV) value(HSV) L a and b against the chlorophyll content in African leaves using a flatbed scanner (HP DeskJet 2130 Series); and 2) built a model to predict chlorophyll content in African leaves using optimised ANN through a feature selection process by using several filter methods. The best ANN topologies are 10-30-40-1 (10 input nodes 40 nodes in hidden layer 1 30 nodes in hidden layer 2 and 1 output node) with a trainlm on the learning function tansig on the hidden layer and purelin on the output layer. The selected topology produces MSE training of 0.0007 with R training 0.9981 and the lowest validation MSE of 0.012 with R validation of 0.967. With these results it can be concluded that the ANN model can be potentially used as a model for predicting chlorophyll content in African leaves.

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Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Chlorophylls
AGROVOC Term:	Plant physiology
AGROVOC Term:	Leaf analysis
AGROVOC Term:	Sampling
AGROVOC Term:	Structure activity relationships
Depositing User:	Mr. AFANDI ABDUL MALEK
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 00:55
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10133

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