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Furthermore, the fixed threshold mechanism that is commonly used in the single-input single-output neural network can result in performance degradation due to changes in the scene. To overcome these challenges and limitations, this paper proposes a novel approach, a single-input dual-output network detector (SIDOND) using data-driven deep neural networks (DNN). One output is used for signal property information (SPI)-based estimation of the detection sufficient statistic, while the other is utilized to establish a dynamic-intelligent threshold mechanism based on the threshold impact factor (TIF), where the TIF is a simplified description of the target and background environment information. Experimental results demonstrate that SIDOND is more robust and performs better than model-based and single-output network detectors. 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