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Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a neural network model which is used to obtain a topology-preserving mapping from the (usually high dimensional) input/feature space to an output/map space of fewer dimensions (usually two or three in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Gerasimos Spanakis , Gerhard Weiss

Due to the ever-expanding volume of observed spectroscopic data from surveys such as SDSS and LAMOST, it has become important to apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for analysing stellar spectra to solve spectral classification…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kaushal Sharma , Ajit Kembhavi , Aniruddha Kembhavi , T. Sivarani , Sheelu Abraham , Kaustubh Vaghmare

The spectrum of a galaxy contains information about its physical properties. Classifying spectra using templates helps elucidate the nature of a galaxy's energy sources. In this paper, we investigate the use of self-organizing maps in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-14 S. Rahmani , H. Teimoorinia , P. Barmby

This paper demonstrates a novel and efficient unsupervised clustering method with the combination of a Self-Organising Map (SOM) and a convolutional autoencoder. The rapidly increasing volume of radio-astronomical data has increased demand…

The growing amount of data produced by simulations and observations of space physics processes encourages the use of methods rooted in Machine Learning for data analysis and physical discovery. We apply a clustering method based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Sophia Köhne , Elisabetta Boella , Maria Elena Innocenti

Machine-part cell formation is used in cellular manufacturing in order to process a large variety, quality, lower work in process levels, reducing manufacturing lead-time and customer response time while retaining flexibility for new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Manojit Chattopadhyay , Surajit Chattopadhyay , Pranab K. Dan

In this work, we select the high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of stars from the LAMOST data andmap theirMK classes to the spectral features. The equivalentwidths of the prominent spectral lines, playing the similar role as the multi-color…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 Chao Liu , Wen-Yuan Cui , Bo Zhang , Jun-Chen Wan , Li-Cai Deng , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Ming Yang , Yong Zhang

Aims. A new method is applied to the segmentation, and further analysis of the outliers resulting from the classification of astronomical objects in large databases is discussed. The method is being used in the framework of the Gaia…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-11 D. Fustes , M. Manteiga , C. Dafonte , B. Arcay , A. Ulla , K. Smith , R. Borrachero , R. Sordo

Texture is one of the most important properties of visual surface that helps in discriminating one object from another or an object from background. The self-organizing map (SOM) is an excellent tool in exploratory phase of data mining. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Marghny H. Mohamed , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

We describe an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach to classification of galaxy images and spectra. ANNs can replicate the classification of galaxy images by a human expert to the same degree of agreement as that between two human…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

Neural network algorithms have been recently applied to construct Parton Distribution Function (PDF) parametrizations which provide an alternative to standard global fitting procedures. We propose a technique based on an interactive neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-30 J. Carnahan , H. Honkanen , S. Liuti , Y. Loitiere , P. R. Reynolds

We present a method for automated classification of galaxies with low signal-to-noise (S/N) spectra typical of redshift surveys. We develop spectral simulations based on the parameters for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, and with these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. R. Folkes , O. Lahav , S. J. Maddox

In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). This technique takes a spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Studies in the past few decades have investigated young stellar object evolution based on their spectral energy distribution (SED). The SED is heavily influenced not only by evolutionary stage, but also the morphology of the young star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 David Hernandez , Odysseas Dionatos , Marc Audard , Gábor Marton , Julia Roquette , Ilknur Gezer , Máté Madarász , Kai L. Polsterer

Self organizing maps (SOMs) are widely-used for unsupervised classification. For this application, they must be combined with some partitioning scheme that can identify boundaries between distinct regions in the maps they produce. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-02-07 Paul R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

We present a system comprising a hybridization of self-organized map (SOM) properties with spiking neural networks (SNNs) that retain many of the features of SOMs. Networks are trained in an unsupervised manner to learn a self-organized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Hananel Hazan , Daniel J. Saunders , Darpan T. Sanghavi , Hava T. Siegelmann , Robert Kozma

Archiving large sets of medical or cell images in digital libraries may require ordering randomly scattered sets of image data according to specific criteria, such as the spatial extent of a specific local color or contrast content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 John M. Wandeto , Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Results of neural network learning are always subject to some variability, due to the sensitivity to initial conditions, to convergence to local minima, and, sometimes more dramatically, to sampling variability. This paper presents a set of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Eric De Bodt , Marie Cottrell , Michel Verleysen

Determining the number of clusters in a dataset is a fundamental issue in data clustering. Many methods have been proposed to solve the problem of selecting the number of clusters, considering it to be a problem with regard to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ryosuke Motegi , Yoichi Seki

Nowadays, with the advance of technology, there is an increasing amount of unstructured data being generated every day. However, it is a painful job to label and organize it. Labeling is an expensive, time-consuming, and difficult task. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Pedro H. M. Braga , Heitor R. Medeiros , Hansenclever F. Bassani