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Accurate and efficient classification of different types of cancer is critical for early detection and effective treatment. In this paper, we present the results of our experiments using the EfficientNet algorithm for classification of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Romario Sameh Samir

We applied computer analysis to classify the broad morphological type of ~3,000,000 SDSS galaxies. The catalog provides for each galaxy the DR8 object ID, right ascension, declination, and the certainty of the automatic classification to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir

Distinguishing active galaxies from star-forming galaxies is essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Diagnostic methods like the BPT (Baldwin, Phillips, and Terlevich) diagram use optical emission-line ratios to separate galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 Farideh Mazoochi , Reihaneh Karimi , Mohammad Hossein Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh Tabatabaei

We present the data release paper for the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble (GZH) project. This is the third phase in a large effort to measure reliable, detailed morphologies of galaxies by using crowdsourced visual classifications of colour composite…

We describe the application of the `shapelet' linear decomposition of galaxy images to multi-wavelength morphological classification using the $u,g,r,i,$ and $z$-band images of 1519 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We utilize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Kelly , T. A. McKay

We present the construction of an image similarity retrieval engine for the morphological classification of galaxies using the Convolutional AutoEncoder (CAE). The CAE is trained on 90,370 preprocessed Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Eunsuk Seo , Suk Kim , Youngdae Lee , Sang-Il Han , Hak-Sub Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Hyunmi Song

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

Building on our previous work, we apply a U-Net Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework to denoise galaxy images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and enhance morphological classification. This study focuses on galaxies observed up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Sergey Mirzoyan

We train graph neural networks to perform field-level likelihood-free inference using galaxy catalogs from state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project. Our models are rotational, translational, and permutation invariant…

Next-generation radio surveys will yield an unprecedented amount of data, warranting analysis by use of machine learning techniques. Convolutional neural networks are the deep learning technique that has proven to be the most successful in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , B. Mingo , J. H. Croston , G. Kasieczka , P. N. Best

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

Methods. We used different galaxy classification techniques: human labeling, multi-photometry diagrams, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbors, and k-fold validation. Results. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 I. B. Vavilova , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk , V. Khramtsov

We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches used in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Yi Sun , Neil Davey

In many applications, Neural Nets (NNs) have classification performance on par or even exceeding human capacity. Moreover, it is likely that NNs leverage underlying features that might differ from those humans perceive to classify. Can we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Haowen Guan , Xuan Zhao , Zishi Wang , Zhiyang Li , Julia Kempe

We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project - an interface on the world-wide web enabling large-scale morphological classification of galaxies through…

In recent years, deep learning has vastly improved the identification and diagnosis of various diseases in plants. In this report, we investigate the problem of pathology classification using images of a single leaf. We explore the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Sedrick Scott Keh

We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the hybrid machine learning framework \texttt{USmorph}, which integrates unsupervised and supervised learning for galaxy morphological classification. Although \texttt{USmorph} has already been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou , Yirui Zheng , Jie Song , Shiying Lu , Xu Kong

Large sky spectroscopic surveys have reached the scale of photometric surveys in terms of sample sizes and data complexity. These huge datasets require efficient, accurate, and flexible automated tools for data analysis and science…

Edge-on galaxies have many important applications in galactic astrophysics, but they can be difficult to identify in vast amounts of astronomical data. To facilitate the search for them, we have developed a deep learning algorithm designed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Z. Chrobakova , V. Kresnakova , R. Nagy , J. Gazdova , P. Butka