Analysis of the Shape and Fractal Dimension of Medicinal Leaves by using Image Processing Techniques

Abstract

Fractal analysis has been applied to describe various aspects connected with the complexity of plant morphology. In this work we have determined the fractal dimension of leaves. Some plants are considered as important source of nutrition and as a result, these plants are recommended for their therapeutic values. The common characteristic of such fractal objects is that their length depends on the length scale used to measure it, and the fractal dimension tells us the precise nature of this dependence. We estimated Fractal Dimension of different kinds of leaves by looking at their inner structure until to the cellular nucleus.