I have audiowrite where I want the value of a text box to be the filename.
My current code does not work, an error says the value of filename is invalid. Anyone know how I fix this?
audiowrite(handles.edit4,'String',y,Fs);
You need to retrieve the String property of the text box using either get(handles.edit4,'String') or if you have R2014b or newer you can use handles.edit4.String
filename = get(handles.edit4, 'String');
% In case "String" is a cell array
if iscell(filename)
filename = filename{1};
end
audiowrite(filename, y, Fs)
Update
If you want to add an extension such as .mp3 you can simply use strcat to append the extension
audiowrite(strcat(filename, '.mp3'), y, Fs)
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I would like to save all simulation variables ad fig with the current time.
my solution:
t = datetime('now','Format','dd-MM-yyyy''_T''HHmmss');
t2 = datevec(t);
DateString = datestr(t2);
filename=[DateString,' all_variables_main '];
save(filename )
savefig(filename)
The following error was given in Matlab:
Unable to write file 26-Oct-2019 09:47:15 all_variables_main : Invalid argument.
What have I done wrong?
mat filenames cannot have spaces or colons in them. You can use the following to directly obtain the date and time in a format that is allowed in a filename:
>> fileName = [datestr(now, 'dd-mmm-yyyy_HHMMSS') '_all_variables_main']
fileName =
'26-Oct-2019_103123_all_variables_main'
>> save(fileName)
File name containing : character is not a valid file name.
You can replace the : with "꞉" character.
See: How to get a file in Windows with a colon in the filename?
You can replace all : with ꞉ character (unicode character A789 that looks like colon) that is valid to be used in file name.
filename(filename == ':') = char(hex2dec('A789'));
Make sure to use the right character when loading the file.
Remark: The above solution was tested in Windows 10, and MATLAB R2016a.
I have a series of DICOM Images which I want to anonymize, I found few Matlab codes and some programs which do the job, but none of them export a .txt file of removed personal information. I was wondering if there is a function which can also save removed personal information of a DICOM images in .txt format for features uses. Also, I am trying to create a table which shows the corresponding new images ID to their real name.(subjects real name = personal-information-removed image ID)
Any thoughts?
Thanks for considering my request!
I'm guessing you only want to output to your text file the fields that are changed by anonymization (either modified, removed, or added). First, you may want to modify some dicomanon options to reduce the number of changes, in particular passing the arguments 'WritePrivate', true to ensure private extensions are kept.
First, you can perform the anonymization, saving structures of pre- and post-anonymization metadata using dicominfo:
preAnonData = dicominfo('input_file.dcm');
dicomanon('input_file.dcm', 'output_file.dcm', 'WritePrivate', true);
postAnonData = dicominfo('output_file.dcm');
Then you can use fieldnames and setdiff to find fields that are removed or added by anonymization, and add them to the post-anonymization or pre-anonymization data, respectively, with a nan value as a place holder:
preFields = fieldnames(preAnonData);
postFields = fieldnames(postAnonData);
removedFields = setdiff(preFields, postFields);
for iField = 1:numel(removedFields)
postAnonData.(removedFields{iField}) = nan;
end
addedFields = setdiff(postFields, preFields);
for iField = 1:numel(addedFields)
preAnonData.(addedFields{iField}) = nan;
end
It will also be helpful to use orderfields so that both data structures have the same ordering for their field names:
postAnonData = orderfields(postAnonData, preAnonData);
Finally, now that each structure has the same fields in the same order we can use struct2cell to convert their field data to a cell array and use cellfun and isequal to find any fields that have been modified by the anonymization:
allFields = fieldnames(preAnonData);
preAnonCell = struct2cell(preAnonData);
postAnonCell = struct2cell(postAnonData);
index = ~cellfun(#isequal, preAnonCell, postAnonCell);
modFields = allFields(index);
Now you can create a table of the changes like so:
T = table(modFields, preAnonCell(index), postAnonCell(index), ...
'VariableNames', {'Field', 'PreAnon', 'PostAnon'});
And you could use writetable to easily output the table data to a text file:
writetable(T, 'anonymized_data.txt');
Note, however, that if any of the fields in the table contain vectors or structures of data, the formatting of your output file may look a little funky (i.e. lots of columns, most of them empty, except for those few fields).
One way to do this is to store the tags before and after anonymisation and use these to write your text file. In Matlab, dicominfo() will read the tags into a structure:
% Get tags before anonymization
tags_before = dicominfo(file_in);
% Anoymize
dicomanon(file_in, file_out); % Need to set tags values where required
% Get tags after anonymization
tags_after = dicominfo(file_out);
% Do something with the two structures
disp(['Patient ID:', tags_before.PatientID ' -> ' tags_after.PatientID]);
disp(['Date of Birth:', tags_before.PatientBirthDate ' -> ' tags_after.PatientBirthDate]);
disp(['Family Name:', tags_before.PatientName.FamilyName ' -> ' tags_after.PatientName.FamilyName]);
You can then write out the before/after fields into a text file. You'd need to modify dicomanon() to choose your own values for the removed fields, since by default they are set to empty.
this question about matlab:
i'm running a loop and each iteration a new set of data is produced, and I want it to be saved in a new file each time. I also overwrite old files by changing the name. Looks like this:
name_each_iter = strrep(some_source,'.string.mat','string_new.(j).mat')
and what I#m struggling here is the iteration so that I obtain files:
...string_new.1.mat
...string_new.2.mat
etc.
I was trying with various combination of () [] {} as well as 'string_new.'j'.mat' (which gave syntax error)
How can it be done?
Strings are just vectors of characters. So if you want to iteratively create filenames here's an example of how you would do it:
for j = 1:10,
filename = ['string_new.' num2str(j) '.mat'];
disp(filename)
end
The above code will create the following output:
string_new.1.mat
string_new.2.mat
string_new.3.mat
string_new.4.mat
string_new.5.mat
string_new.6.mat
string_new.7.mat
string_new.8.mat
string_new.9.mat
string_new.10.mat
You could also generate all file names in advance using NUM2STR:
>> filenames = cellstr(num2str((1:10)','string_new.%02d.mat'))
filenames =
'string_new.01.mat'
'string_new.02.mat'
'string_new.03.mat'
'string_new.04.mat'
'string_new.05.mat'
'string_new.06.mat'
'string_new.07.mat'
'string_new.08.mat'
'string_new.09.mat'
'string_new.10.mat'
Now access the cell array contents as filenames{i} in each iteration
sprintf is very useful for this:
for ii=5:12
filename = sprintf('data_%02d.mat',ii)
end
this assigns the following strings to filename:
data_05.mat
data_06.mat
data_07.mat
data_08.mat
data_09.mat
data_10.mat
data_11.mat
data_12.mat
notice the zero padding. sprintf in general is useful if you want parameterized formatted strings.
For creating a name based of an already existing file, you can use regexp to detect the '_new.(number).mat' and change the string depending on what regexp finds:
original_filename = 'data.string.mat';
im = regexp(original_filename,'_new.\d+.mat')
if isempty(im) % original file, no _new.(j) detected
newname = [original_filename(1:end-4) '_new.1.mat'];
else
num = str2double(original_filename(im(end)+5:end-4));
newname = sprintf('%s_new.%d.mat',original_filename(1:im(end)-1),num+1);
end
This does exactly that, and produces:
data.string_new.1.mat
data.string_new.2.mat
data.string_new.3.mat
...
data.string_new.9.mat
data.string_new.10.mat
data.string_new.11.mat
when iterating the above function, starting with 'data.string.mat'
I want to have the option at the beginning of my script to set whether I want to export the figure or not, and to set the name of the exported figure:
EXPORT_FIGURE = 1;
FIGURE_NAME = 'some_string';
...
if EXPORT_FIGURE == 1
export_fig(sprintf('%d', FIGURE_NAME), '-png', '-q101');
end
This works fine when FIGURE_NAME is a number, but not when I set it as a string. Is there a way around this? If I can use a string, then I can just name the figure at the top of my script.
The issue is because you used the '%d' format specifier which is for numbers. You will need to use '%s' for a string.
if ischar(FIGURE_NAME)
filename = sprintf('%s', FIGURE_NAME);
else
filename = sprintf('%d', FIGURE_NAME);
end
export_fig(filename, '-png', '-q101')
The use of sprintf and %d wants to turn the FIGURE_NAME into an integer, this works if FIGURE_NAME is numeric, not if it is a string. The problem is therefore not the export_fig function, but the sprintf function.
I am new to matlab and image analysis. I would really appreciate some insight/help into the following problem. I am trying to rename images (jpg) in a folder that have a random name into specific (new) names. I made the an excel file with two columns the first column contains the old names and the second column the new names. I found the next code on stack overflow (Rename image file name in matlab):
dirData = dir('*.jpg'); %# Get the selected file data
fileNames = {dirData.name}; %# Create a cell array of file names
for iFile = 1:numel(fileNames) %# Loop over the file names
newName = sprintf('image%05d.jpg',iFile); %# Make the new name
movefile(fileNames{iFile},newName); %# Rename the file
end
The code gives all the photos a new name based on the old one but that is not what I want, the new names I use are not linked to the old ones. I tried the following code :
g= xlsread('names.xlsx') % names.xlsx the excel file with old and new names
for i=1:nrows(g)
image=open(g(i,1));
save(g(i,2),image);
end
It doesn't work. I get the error message :using open (line 68)
NAME must contain a single string. I don't think open is the right function to use.
Thank you !
How about this:
% Get the jpeg names
dir_data = dir('*.jpg');
jpg_names = {dir_data.name};
% Rename the files according to the .xlsx file
[~,g,~] = xlsread('names.xlsx'); % Thanks to the post of Sean
old_names = g(:,1);
new_names = g(:,2);
for k = 1:numel(old_names)
% check if the file exists
ix_file = strcmpi(old_names{k}, jpg_names);
if any(ix_file)
movefile(old_names{k}, new_names{k});
end;
end;
It seems like g = xlsread(file) reads only numeric data from file (see here). The third output argument of xlsread returns raw data including strings; does the following work? (i don't have excel and can't test it)
[~, ~, g] = xlsread('names.xlsx')
for i = 1:nrows(g)
movefile(g{i,1}, g{i,2})
end