From visual estimates to fully automated sensor-based measurements of plant disease severity: status and challenges for improving accuracy

CH Bock, JGA Barbedo, EM Del Ponte… - Phytopathology …, 2020 - Springer
The severity of plant diseases, traditionally the proportion of the plant tissue exhibiting
symptoms, is a key quantitative variable to know for many diseases and is prone to error …

Plant disease severity estimated visually: a century of research, best practices, and opportunities for improving methods and practices to maximize accuracy

CH Bock, KS Chiang, EM Del Ponte - Tropical Plant Pathology, 2022 - Springer
Plant disease quantification, mainly the intensity of disease symptoms on individual units
(severity), is the basis for a plethora of research and applied purposes in plant pathology …

Computer vision quantification of whole-body Parkinsonian bradykinesia using a large multi-site population

G Morinan, Y Dushin, G Sarapata… - npj Parkinson's …, 2023 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurological disorder, with bradykinesia being one of
its cardinal features. Objective quantification of bradykinesia using computer vision has the …

A discussion on disease severity index values. Part I: warning on inherent errors and suggestions to maximise accuracy

KS Chiang, HI Liu, CH Bock - Annals of Applied Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A special type of ordinal scale comprising a number of intervals of known numeric ranges
can be used when estimating severity of a plant disease. The interval ranges are most often …

Recent advances in plant disease severity assessment using convolutional neural networks

T Shi, Y Liu, X Zheng, K Hu, H Huang, H Liu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In modern agricultural production, the severity of diseases is an important factor that directly
affects the yield and quality of plants. In order to effectively monitor and control the entire …

Technological innovations for improving cassava production in sub-Saharan Africa

EGN Mbanjo, IY Rabbi, ME Ferguson… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cassava is crucial for food security of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The crop has
great potential to contribute to African development and is increasing its income-earning …

Standard area diagrams for aiding severity estimation: scientometrics, pathosystems, and methodological trends in the last 25 years

EM Del Ponte, SJ Pethybridge, CH Bock… - …, 2017 - Am Phytopath Society
Standard area diagrams (SAD) have long been used as a tool to aid the estimation of plant
disease severity, an essential variable in phytopathometry. Formal validation of SAD was not …

A new standard area diagram set for assessment of severity of soybean rust improves accuracy of estimates and optimizes resource use

VT Franceschi, KS Alves, SM Mazaro… - Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean rust (SBR), caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi, is the most important yield‐
damaging fungal disease of soybean due to severe reduction in healthy leaf area and …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-vision based method for quantifying rising from chair in Parkinson's disease patients

G Morinan, Y Peng, S Rupprechter, RS Weil… - Intelligence-Based …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The ability to arise from a sitting to a standing position is often impaired in
Parkinson's disease (PD). This impairment is associated with an increased risk of falling …

Understanding the ramifications of quantitative ordinal scales on accuracy of estimates of disease severity and data analysis in plant pathology

KS Chiang, CH Bock - Tropical plant pathology, 2022 - Springer
The severity of plant diseases, traditionally defined as the proportion of the plant tissue
exhibiting symptoms, is a key quantitative variable to know for many diseases but is prone to …