Implementing K-Nearest Neighbor to Classify Wild Plant Leaf as a Medicinal Plants

Abstract

in leaf shape. Therefore, this study aimed to create a system to help increase public knowledge about wild plant leaves that also function as medicinal plants by the KNN method. Leaves of wild plants, namely Rumput Minjangan, Sambung Rambat, Rambusa, Brotowali, and Zehneria japonica, are also medicinal plants in comparison. Image processing  techniques used were preprocessing, image segmentation, and morphological feature extraction. Preprocessing consists of scaling and splitting the RGB components and using an RGB component decomposition process to find the color component that best describes the leaf shape and generate the blue component image. The segmentation process used a thresholding technique with a gray threshold value (T) of less than 150, which best separates objects and backgrounds. Some morphological feature extraction used are area, perimeter, metric, eccentricity, and aspect ratio. Based on the results of this research, the KNN method with variations in K values, namely 13, 15, and 17, obtained a system accuracy of 94.44% with a total of 90% training data and 10% test data. This comparison also affected the increase in system accuracy.