Table 5 Performance of each encoding method using the final hyper-parameters on the LOFAR dataset with second-order LiF neurons

From: Spiking neural networks for radio frequency interference detection in radio astronomy

Encoding Method

Accuracy

AUROC

AUPRC

F1

Delta Exposure

0.887

0.294

0.314

0.007

0.621

0.108

0.397

0.009

Delta Exposure + DN

0.992

0.000

0.312

0.000

0.629

0.011

0.395

0.001

Latency

0.992

0.002

0.346

0.012

0.604

0.021

0.474

0.024

Latency + DN

0.989

0.003

0.335

0.005

0.475

0.007

0.438

0.005

Step-Forward-Direct

0.989

0.006

0.351

0.008

0.497

0.015

0.469

0.012

Step-Forward-Direct + DN

0.992

0.000

0.311

0.001

0.693

0.000

0.393

0.002

ANN

0.748

0.165

0.439

0.053

0.608

0.083

0.087

0.027

ANN + DN

0.862

0.160

0.473

0.056

0.559

0.091

0.072

0.032

  1. Each metric is listed as mean and standard deviation. The best scores are bolded. Ten trials were completed for each encoding method. Abbreviations: DNN divisive normalisation, ANN artificial neural network, AUROC area under the receiver operator curve, and AUPRC area under the precision recall curve. Latency encoding without divisive normalisation offers the best overall performance in accuracy and F1 scores. Step-Forward (direct) encoding with divisive normalisation offers significantly higher AUPRC performance than all other methods. An identically sized ANN does perform best in AUROC, however.