Astronomy and Computing • Vol 44
Radio sources segmentation and classification with deep learning
June 2023 • Baoqiang Lao, Sumit Jaiswal, Zhen Zhao, Liyan Lin, Jing Wang, Xiaohui Sun, Sheng‐Li Qin
Modern large radio continuum surveys have high sensitivity and resolution, and can resolve previously undetected extended and diffuse emissions, which brings great challenges for the detection and morphological classification of extended sources. We present HeTu-v2, a deep learning-based source detector that uses the combined networks of Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (Mask R-CNN) and a Transformer block to achieve high-quality radio sources segmentation and classification. The sources are classif…