An intelligent approach for galaxies images classification

This article presents an intelligent automatic approach for galaxies images classification based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and moment-based features extraction algorithms. The proposed approach consists of three phases; namely, image denoising, feature extraction, and classification phases. For the denoising phase, noise pixels are removed from input images, then input galaxy image is normalized to a uniform scale and Hu seven invariant moment algorithm is applied to reduce the dimensionality of the feature space during the feature extraction phase. Finally, during the classification phase, Self-Organize Feature Maps (SOFMs) and Time Lag Recurrent Networks (TLRNs) algorithms are utilized for classifying the input galaxies images into one of four obtained source catalogue types. Experimental results showed that SOFMs provided better classification results than having TLRNs applied. It is also concluded that a small set of features is sufficient to classify galaxy images and provide a fast classification.

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