Automated identification of northern leaf blight-infected maize plants from field imagery using deep learning

Phytopathology

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1426-1432

  DeChant, Chad ^a   Wiesner Hanks, Tyr ^a   Chen, Siyuan ^a   Stewart, Ethan L ^b   Yosinski, Jason ^c   Gore, Michael A ^b   Nelson, Rebecca J ^b   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCETES; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; MAIZE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES;

ASCOMYCOTA; AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACHINE LEARNING; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85032483778     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-11-16-0417-R     Document Type: Article

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