AUTOMATED MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF APM GALAXIES BY SUPERVISED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Abstract
We train Artificial Neural Networks to classify galaxies based solely on the morphology of the galaxy images as they appear on blue survey plates. The images are reduced and morphological features such as bulge size and the number of arms are extracted, all in a fully automated manner. The galaxy sample was first classified by 6 independent experts. We use several definitions for the mean type of each galaxy, based on those classifications. We then train and test the network on these features. We find that the rms error of the network classifications, as compared with the mean types of the expert classifications, is 1.8 Revised Hubble Types. This is comparable to the overall rms dispersion between the experts. This result is robust and almost completely independent of the network architecture used.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9503001,
title = {AUTOMATED MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF APM GALAXIES BY SUPERVISED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS},
author = {A. Naim and O. Lahav and L. Sodre and M. C. Storrie-Lombardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9503001},
year = {2015}
}
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The full paper contains 25 pages, and includes 22 figures. It is available at ftp://ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk/pub/hn/apm2.ps . The table in the appendix is available on request from [email protected]. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., in press