Research Article

A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Detection of Organic and Nonorganic Cotton Diseases

Table 4

Comparison of K-means and KNN techniques.

Author and yearMethodologyDetected diseasesRemarksDatasetGaps identified

Revathi and Hemalatha [31]K-means nearest neighbourGrey mildew
Bacterial blight
Leaf curl virus disease-gemini virusAlternaria leaf spot
Accuracy of 92%N/AThe accuracy of KNN is less compared to others
Parikh et al. [32]KNN classificationGrey mildewAccuracy of 82.5%150 images
40 images (1024 × 1024 pixels)
Size of the block is chosen depending upon the presence of some disease pattern
Narmadha and Arulvadivu [33]K-means techniqueBlast
Brown spot
Accuracy of 94.7%MATLAB image libraryTime consuming
Schuster et al. [34]K-means clustering
Artificial neural network
N/AAccuracy of 92.5%N/AKNN not specified for a particular metric may be contiguous