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We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the unsupervised machine learning module within the hybrid framework \texttt{USmorph}. This module automatically discovers morphological structures from large-scale galaxy images, forming the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Guanwen Fang , Xiaolei Yin , Yirui Zheng , Zesen Lin , Shiwei Zhu , Jie Song , Chichun Zhou , Xu Kong

The morphological classification of radio sources is important to gain a full understanding of galaxy evolution processes and their relation with local environmental properties. Furthermore, the complex nature of the problem, its appeal for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-09 Burger Becker , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Trienko Lups Grobler

We present a machine-learning framework to accurately characterize morphologies of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) host galaxies within $z<1$. We first use PSFGAN to decouple host galaxy light from the central point source, then we invoke the…

We applied the image-based approach with a convolutional neural network model to the sample of low-redshifts galaxies with $-24^{m}<M_{r}<-19.4^{m}$ from the SDSS DR9. We divided it into two subsamples, SDSS DR9 galaxy dataset and Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-04 I. B. Vavilova , V. Khramtsov , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk

In this work, we update the unsupervised machine learning (UML) step by proposing an algorithm based on ConvNeXt large model coding to improve the efficiency of unlabeled galaxy morphology classifications. The method can be summarized into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-03 Guanwen Fang , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Yizhou Gu , Xiaotong Guo , Anqi Mao , Xu Kong

Classification of galaxies is traditionally associated with their morphologies through visual inspection of images. The amount of data to come renders this task inhuman and Machine Learning (mainly Deep Learning) has been called to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Didier Fraix-Burnet

Galaxy morphology is a key parameter in galaxy evolution studies. The enormous number of galaxies which current and future surveys will observe demand of automated methods for morphological classification. Supervised learning techniques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-27 Helena Domínguez Sánchez , Mariangela Bernardi , Marc Huertas-Company

We describe application of the `shapelet' linear decomposition of galaxy images to morphological classification using images of $\sim$ 3000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. After decomposing the galaxies we perform a principal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brandon C. Kelly , Timothy A. McKay

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive polar coordinate transformation, we develop a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 G. W. Fang , S. Ba , Y. Z. Gu , Z. S. Lin , Y. J. Hou , C. X. Qin , C. C. Zhou , J. Xu , Y. Dai , J. Song , X. Kong

Context: The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises the need of an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning algorithms are of particular interest, since they discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rene Andrae , Peter Melchior , Matthias Bartelmann

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

A galaxy's morphological features encode details about its gas content, star formation history, and feedback processes, which play important roles in regulating its growth and evolution. We use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-15 John F. Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) with a step-by-step introduction of inputs, which is constructed by imitating the somatosensory system in human body, known as SpinalNet have been implemented in this work on a Galaxy Zoo dataset. The input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dim Shaiakhmetov , Remudin Reshid Mekuria , Ruslan Isaev , Fatma Unsal

Existing Multi-view Clustering (MVC) methods based on subspace learning focus on consensus representation learning while neglecting the inherent topological structure of data. Despite the integration of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chenping Pei , Fadi Dornaika , Jingjun Bi

We employ the XGBoost machine learning (ML) method for the morphological classification of galaxies into two (early-type, late-type) and five (E, S0--S0a, Sa--Sb, Sbc--Scd, Sd--Irr) classes, using a combination of non-parametric…

Quantifying the morphology of galaxies has been an important task in astrophysics to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. In recent years, the data size has been dramatically increasing due to several on-going and upcoming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Song-Mao Liao , Hung-Jin Huang , Wei-Ting Kuo , Olivia Hsuan-Min Ou

Context. The accurate classification of hundreds of thousands of galaxies observed in modern deep surveys is imperative if we want to understand the universe and its evolution. Aims. Here, we report the use of machine learning techniques to…

Melanoma classification is a serious stage to identify the skin disease. It is considered a challenging process due to the intra-class discrepancy of melanomas, skin lesions low contrast, and the artifacts in the dermoscopy images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Yanhui Guo , Amira S. Ashour

Machine learning (ML) is a standard approach for estimating the redshifts of galaxies when only photometric information is available. ML photo-z solutions have traditionally ignored the morphological information available in galaxy images…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Kristen Menou