... The automated procedure described here uses an image enhancing technique, segmentation, shape feature extraction and a supervised artificial neural network to classify the galaxies. ... The ma jor challenge is in the development of robust and automated segmentation schemes. ... Goderya, Andreasen, & Philip Overall Automated Galaxy Classification Scheme. on Linux platform, with the exception of interactive thresholding module that was performed by using Khoros Image Processing software 1 . ...