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The third data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey provides an unprecedented view of the northern sky at 144 MHz. While compact sources can be efficiently identified with automated software packages, the detection of diffuse radio…

Vision Transformers are used via a customized TransUNet architecture, which is a hybrid model combining Transformers into a U-Net backbone, to achieve precise, automated, and fast segmentation of radio astronomy data affected by calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Nicoletta Sanvitale , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Virginia Cuciti , Emanuele De Rubeis , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Valentina Vacca

In this paper we introduce a reliable, fully automated and fast algorithm to detect extended extragalactic radio sources (cluster of galaxies, filaments) in existing and forthcoming surveys (like LOFAR and SKA). The proposed solution is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede

Diffuse radio emission has been detected in a considerable number of galaxy clusters and groups, revealing the presence of pervasive cosmic magnetic fields, and of relativistic particles in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe.…

Aims. We aim to understand the nature of the diffuse radio emission surrounding the massive galaxy cluster PSZ2 G083.29-31.03, at z=0.412, already known to host a radio halo. Our investigation was triggered by Radio U-Net, a novel machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 C. Stuardi , A. Botteon , M. Sereno , K. Umetsu , R. Gavazzi , A. Bonafede , C. Gheller

We present an overview of unbiased studies of diffuse extragalactic radio sources. We use a previously developed filtering technique to remove compact sources from large surveys such as WENSS, WISH, and NVSS and examine the residual diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lawrence Rudnick , Kisha M. Delain , Jeffrey A. Lemmerman

We propose a novel approach for mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) signals in radio data using the latest advances in deep learning. We employ a special type of Convolutional Neural Network, the U-Net, that enables the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 Joel Akeret , Chihway Chang , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier

Diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters, such as radio halos, relics, and mini halos, is a key tracer of non-thermal processes, turbulence, and magnetic fields within the intra-cluster medium. However, their low surface brightness, as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Verlon Etsebeth , Michelle Lochner , Konstantinos Kolokythas , Kenda Knowles , Emma Tolley

We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

We investigated the use of a U-Net convolutional neural network for denoising simulated medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of stars. Simulated spectra were generated under realistic observational conditions resembling the Subaru…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Balázs Pál , László Dobos

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can be detected via the broadband radio pulses produced by their extensive air showers. The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned radio observatory that aims to deploy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Zhisen Lai , Oscar Macias , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Arsène Ferrière , Matías Tueros

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly useful in astronomical applications over the last few years, for example in the morphological classification of galaxies. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , J. K. Banfield , O. I. Wong , L. Rudnick , R. P. Norris , B. Simmons

Numerous studies have affirmed that deep learning models can facilitate early diagnosis of lesions in endoscopic images. However, the lack of available datasets stymies advancements in research on nasal endoscopy, and existing models fail…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Yubiao Yue , Jun Xue , Chao Wang , Haihua Liang , Zhenzhang Li

We apply a Machine Learning technique known as Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder to denoise synthetic images of state-of-the-art radio telescopes, with the goal of detecting the faint, diffused radio sources predicted to characterise the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

We present TUNA, a Vision-Transformer based network adapted from segmentation to flux regression for faint, diffuse radio emission. Trained on LOFAR-like mock observations derived from cosmological simulations, TUNA accurately reconstructs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Nicoletta Sanvitale , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Valentina Vacca

Aims: This study investigates whether a U-Net architecture can perform standalone end-to-end blind deconvolution of astronomical images without any prior knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF) or noise characteristics. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Jean-Eric Campagne

U-Nets are a go-to, state-of-the-art neural architecture across numerous tasks for continuous signals on a square such as images and Partial Differential Equations (PDE), however their design and architecture is understudied. In this paper,…

We propose a machine-learning-based technique to determine the number density of radio sources as a function of their flux density, for use in next-generation radio surveys. The method uses a convolutional neural network trained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Elisa Todarello , Andre Scaffidi , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

At GeV energies, the sky is dominated by the interstellar emission from the Galaxy. With limited statistics and spatial resolution, accurately separating point sources is therefore challenging. Here we present the first application of deep…

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