Table 1 The following table explores the study in terms of author and year of publication (reference), objectives of the study, dataset used for the study, results of the study and limitations of the study.

From: Classification of cotton leaf disease using YOLOv8 based k-fold cross validation deep learning method for precision agriculture

References

Objectives

Dataset used

Results

Limitations

Elaraby et al., 2022b20

DL model for stress detection in five different crops, i.e., cucumber, corn, wheat, grape, cotton

54k images of fourteen different crops from Plant Village dataset

Accuracy 98.83%, Sensitivity (sens.) 98.78%, F Score 98.47%, Precision (precision) 98.67%, and Specificity (spec.) 98.53%

Real-time implementation testing required

Pan et al., 202421

CDDLite-YOLO model for cotton plant stress detection + enhancing acc. with minimum YOLO parameters

1530 natural field images of cotton plant (38% verticillium wilt, 34% anthracnose, and 28% fusarium wilt)

(Mean Average Precision) mAP achieved is 90.60% with 3.6G FLOPS and 1.8 M parameters + identification speed of 222.22 FPS

Only 78.10% mAP for verticillium detection

Ahmed, 202122

Transfer learning based Custom CNN i.e., DCPLD-CNN for cotton leaf disease detection.

The dataset used in the Cotton Plant and Leaf Disease recognition study was collected from a specified source [38]

Accuracy 98.77% + validation acc. of 88.99% and 98.77% for 100 and 500 iterations, respectively

More robust testing specific to cotton plant dataset needed

Gao et al., 202423

DL model for cotton plant stress detection

Datasets for the study were collected from diversified sources through manual collection and internet crawling techniques

94% accuracy, 95% mAP, and speed of 49.7 FPS

Further study is needed to maintain performance on larger datasets and reduce computational resource consumption

Bharathi et al., 202424

Random tree based- adaptive fire-hawk DL model i.e., DQRR-AFH

Hybrid database by combining 1710 natural field and internet images of cotton plant

98.88% accuracy, 99.21% F1 score, 97% precision + Performance comparison with WL-CNN, ECPRC, and DT models

Only two class classifications are performed

Li et al., 202425

CFNet-VoV-GCSP-LSKNet-YOLOv8s model for cotton stress detection

6 public datasets from Kaggel

89.9% precision, 90.70% recall, and 93.7% mAP(0.5)

The study does not address the limitations explicitly, focusing more on the proposed method’s enhancements and performance metrics.

Nazeer et al., 202426

Develop a dataset of cotton leaf images to support automated disease detection systems + DL model for detection of Cotton Leaf Curl Disease (CLCuD)

Hybrid dataset of Kaggle images and natural self-collected 1349 images of cotton leaf

99% accuracy achieved

Model restricted to Leaf curl disease in cotton plant

Latif et al., 20218

Develop an automated technique for detecting cotton leaf diseases using DL

The study utilized 1000 self-collected datasets of cotton diseases labelled and augmented by an expert for training and testing purposes

Achieved an accuracy of 98.8% using Cubic SVM

The model applied to four classes only, which are Areolate Mildew, Myrothecium leaf spot, and Soreshine

Kolachi et al., 202327

Identification of blight and curl disease in cotton plant using a custom YOLO DL model

Natural dataset from farmer’s fields of Sindh, Pakistan. It consists of healthy leaves, bacterial blight, and curl virus images. 1000 images were sourced from Kaggle, GitHub, and Google to enhance the dataset’s diversity and size. After augmentation, a total of 5046 images were formed

The YOLOv5 model achieved 92% accuracy in disease classification

Only two class classifications are performed: bacterial blight and curl virus

Zhu et al., 202228

Develop a cotton disease identification method based on pruning on VGG16, ResNet164, and DenseNet40 to address deployability issues on resource-limited smart devices

PlantVillage consists of 14 types of plants with 54,306 images of healthy and diseased leaves

The compressed models (size 2.2 MB) achieved high accuracies, with DenseNet40-80-T achieving 97.23%

Lack of detailed discussion on the potential challenges or drawbacks of the proposed pruning algorithm and compression strategies used for cotton disease identification based on DCNN models

Thivya et al., 20249

Develop a novel DL pipeline, CoDet, for cotton plant detection and disease identification

30k images collected from internet (25k for training and rest 5k for validation testing)

CoDet outperformed other models in comparative study using different matrics

More robust testing needed considering Indian environment and physiochemical traits of cotton plant

Rai and Pahuja, 202329

Deep-CNN for cotton stress detection

Hybrid dataset of 2293 natural images and Kaggle images

97.98% accuracy achieved

Real time performance testing needed

Rai and Pahuja, 202430

Using DL methods for cotton stress identification

Two different datasets from Kaggle of 2310 and 1711 images respectively

99.48% accuracy and 99% sens. achieved

More robust testing needed

Shahid et al., 202431

GoogleNet, VGG19, AlexNet, and InceptionV3 for identification of cotton plant stress

Natural dataset from Balochistan, Pakistan covering all the 3 phases i.e., sowing, germination and maturity

Accuracy achieved by GoogleNet, AlexNet, and InceptionV3 is 93.40%, 93.40%, and 91.80% respectively

The accuracy is low as compared to the other models

Kukadiya et al., 202410

Pre-trained VGG16 and InceptionV3 used to detect early cotton leaf diseases

1786 images of 4 different types i.e., blight, curl, wilt and healthy from PlantVillage dataset

Training and Testing accuracy of 98% and 95% achieved respectively

It focused only on four cotton diseases

Islam et al., 202319

Hybrid DL models by combining Transfer learning with Xception, Inception V3, VGG 16 and 19

2310 images from Kaggle dataset

VGG-16 achieved an accuracy of 90.22%, while VGG-19, Inception-V3, and Xception achieved higher accuracies of 96.74%, 97.83%, and 98.70%, respectively

Only binary classification achieved, more robust testing needed