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We present the first stable release of Halotools (v0.2), a community-driven Python package designed to build and test models of the galaxy-halo connection. Halotools provides a modular platform for creating mock universes of galaxies…

We present the use of self-supervised learning to explore and exploit large unlabeled datasets. Focusing on 42 million galaxy images from the latest data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-02 George Stein , Peter Harrington , Jacqueline Blaum , Tomislav Medan , Zarija Lukic

Leveraging medical record information in the era of big data and machine learning comes with the caveat that data must be cleaned and de-identified. Facilitating data sharing and harmonization for multi-center collaborations are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Adrienne Kline , Vinesh Appadurai , Yuan Luo , Sanjiv Shah

The performance of deep networks for semantic image segmentation largely depends on the availability of large-scale training images which are labelled at the pixel level. Typically, such pixel-level image labellings are obtained manually by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang , Jinye Peng , Jianping Fan

Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Shoulin Wei , Yadi Li , Wei Lu , Nan Li , Bo Liang , Wei Dai , Zhijian Zhang

We present a library of the major spiral arm models (and maps) of the Galaxy. The package is written in Python, and allows the user to both extract the 2D trace and overplot the spiral arms in Cartesian/Polar coordinates in both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Abhay Kumar Prusty , Shourya Khanna

We present ClumPyLen, a Python-based simulator designed to produce realistic mock observations of strongly lensed, high-redshift, clumpy star-forming galaxies. The tool models galaxy components such as disks, bulges, and spiral arms using…

We present a novel unsupervised learning approach to automatically segment and label images in astronomical surveys. Automation of this procedure will be essential as next-generation surveys enter the petabyte scale: data volumes will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Neil Davey , Yi Sun

Background and Objective: Deep learning enables tremendous progress in medical image analysis. One driving force of this progress are open-source frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. However, these frameworks rarely address issues…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Alain Jungo , Olivier Scheidegger , Mauricio Reyes , Fabian Balsiger

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

pyssam is a Python library for creating statistical shape and appearance models (SSAMs) for biological (and other) shapes such as bones, lungs or other organs. A point cloud best describing the anatomical 'landmarks' of the organ are…

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HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization -- is a versatile data structure with an associated library of computational algorithms and visualization software that supports fast scientific applications executable…

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I describe the design, implementation, and usage of galpy, a Python package for galactic-dynamics calculations. At its core, galpy consists of a general framework for representing galactic potentials both in Python and in C (for accelerated…

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Spectropolarimetry, the observation of polarization and intensity as a function of wavelength, is a powerful tool in stellar astrophysics. It is particularly useful for characterizing stars and circumstellar material, and for tracing the…

A wide range of scientific imaging datasets benefit from human inspection for purposes ranging from prosaic-such as fault identification and quality inspection-to profound, enabling the discovery of new phenomena. As such, these datasets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Ryan Walker , Andi Kisare , Lindsey Bleem

Multiplexed imaging data are revolutionizing our understanding of the composition and organization of tissues and tumors. A critical aspect of such tissue profiling is quantifying the spatial relationship relationships among cells at…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-06 Ajit J. Nirmal , Peter K. Sorger

popclass is a python package that provides a flexible, probabilistic framework for classifying the lens of a gravitational microlensing event. popclass allows a user to match characteristics of a microlensing signal to a simulation of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Greg Sallaberry , Zofia Kaczmarek , Peter McGill , Scott E. Perkins , William A. Dawson , Caitlin G. Begbie

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth

Scikit-learn is a Python module integrating a wide range of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for medium-scale supervised and unsupervised problems. This package focuses on bringing machine learning to non-specialists using a…