morpheus-astro 0.1.0

A Library For Generating Morphological Semantic Segmentation Maps of Astronomical Images

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Morpheus is a neural network model used to generate pixel level morphological classifications for astronomical sources. This model can be used to generate segmentation maps or to inform other photometric measurements with granular morphological information.

Installation

Morpheus is implemented using Tensorflow. It listed in the dependecies for the package. If you want to use an accelerated version of Tensorflow, for example, to take advantage of GPU acceleration, then be sure to install it before you install Morpheus.

pip install morpheus-astro

Usage

The main way to interact with Morpheus is by using the morpheus.classifier.Classifier class. Using this class you can classify astronomical images in 2 ways:

1. Using classify_arrays to classify numpy arrays.

from morpheus.classifier import Classifier
from morpheus.data import example

h, j, v, z = example.get_sample()
morphs = Classifier.classify_arrays(h=h, j=j, v=v, z=z)

The output that is returned is a dictionary where the keys are the morphological classes: spheroid, disk, irregular, point source, and background and the values are the corresponding numpy arrays.

2. Using classify_files to classify FITS files:

from morpheus.classifier import Classifier
from morpheus.data import example

# this saves the sample numpy arrays as FITS files in 'out_dir'
example.get_sample(out_dir='.')
h, j, v, z = [f'{band}.fits' for band in 'hjvz']

morphs = Classifier.classify_files(h=h, j=j, v=v, z=z)

Using FITS files can be useful for classifying files that are too large to fit into memory. If an image is too large to fit into memory, then specify the out_dir argument and the outputs will be saved there rather than returned.

from morpheus.classifier import Classifier
from morpheus.data import example

# this saves the sample numpy arrays as fits files in 'out_dir'
example.get_sample(out_dir='.')
h, j, v, z = [f'{band}.fits' for band in 'hjvz']

Classifier.classify_files(h=h, j=j, v=v, z=z, out_dir='.')

If you’re classifying a large image and have multiple NVIDIA GPUs on the same machine available the image can be classified in parallel using the gpus argument. The image split evenly along the first dimension and then handed off to subprocess to classify the subset of the image, after which, the image is stitched back together.

from morpheus.classifier import Classifier

# h, j, v, and, z are strings that point to a large image

# gpus should be an integer list containing the GPU ids for the GPUs that
# you want to use to classify the images. You can get these values by
# calling 'nvidia-smi'
gpus = [0, 1]

Classifier.classify_files(h=h, j=j, v=v, z=z, out_dir='.', gpus=gpus)

Documentation

https://morpheus-astro.readthedocs.io/