TY - JOUR VL - 21 IS - 12 JF - Trends in Plant Science Y1 - 2016/10// SP - 989 PB - Elsevier A1 - Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. A1 - Minervini, Massimo A1 - Scharr, Hanno EP - 991 ID - eprints3606 N1 - Available online 31 October 2016 UR - http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2016.10.002 KW - image processing KW - machine learning KW - plant phenotyping KW - stress AV - none TI - Machine Learning for Plant Phenotyping Needs Image Processing N2 - We found the article by Singh et al. [1] extremely interesting because it introduces and showcases the utility of machine learning for high-throughput data-driven plant phenotyping. With this letter we aim to emphasize the role that image analysis and processing have in the phenotyping pipeline beyond what is suggested in [1], both in analyzing phenotyping data (e.g., to measure growth) and when providing effective feature extraction to be used by machine learning. Key recent reviews have shown that it is image analysis itself (what the authors of [1] consider as part of pre-processing) that has brought a renaissance in phenotyping [2]. SN - 1360-1385 ER -