Galaxies, Human Eyes and Artificial Neural Networks

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1994-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9412027v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in Science. 13 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file (not including 3 figures). Also available at (131.111.68.

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.267.5199.859

Quantitative morphological classification of galaxies is important for understanding the origin of type frequency and correlations with environment. But galaxy morphological classification is still mainly done visually by dedicated individuals, in the spirit of Hubble's original scheme, and its modifications. The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic methods. Here we show results from the first systematic comparison of the dispersion among human experts classifying a uniformly selected sample of over 800 digitised galaxy images. These galaxy images were then classified by six of the authors independently. The human classifications are compared with each other, and with an automatic classification by Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). It is shown that the ANNs can replicate the classification by a human expert to the same degree of agreement as that between two human experts.

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