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extractFrame

Extract pixel data for one frame of 2-D medical image series

Since R2022b

Description

X = extractFrame(medImage,frame) extracts the pixel data for the frame at index frame of the medicalImage object medImage.

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Examples

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Specify the name of an echocardiogram series stored as a DICOM file.

fileName = "heartUltrasoundSequence.dcm";

Create a medical image object for the echocardiogram series.

medImage = medicalImage(fileName);

Check the NumFrames property value to determine the number of frames in the series. medImage contains three frames.

numFrames = medImage.NumFrames
numFrames = 3

Extract the second frame in the image series. Display the extracted frame image.

X = extractFrame(medImage,2);
imshow(X)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains an object of type image.

Input Arguments

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Medical image, specified as a medicalImage object.

Frame index, specified as a positive integer scalar in the range [1, numFrames], where numFrames is the number of frames in the image or series of images in medImage. The number of frames is specified by the NumFrames property of medImage.

Data Types: double

Output Arguments

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Pixel data of the extracted frame, returned as an m-by-n numeric matrix, where m and n are the first two dimensions of the image frame extracted from medImage. The X output matrix is the same data type as the Pixels property of medImage.

Version History

Introduced in R2022b