I currently have this:
[filename, pathname, filterindex] = uiputfile({...
... (various filetypes)
'Disks image.jpg');
if isequal(filename,0) || isequal(pathname,0)
disp('User selected Cancel');
else
disp(['User selected ',fullfile(pathname,filename)]);
end
imwrite(M, 'Disks image.jpg', 'jpg');
disp('Image saved');
end
How would I write for the part currently saying 'Disks image.jpg' a name that is either the current time (given by the following):
dateTime = javaMethod('currentTimeMillis', 'java.lang.System');
Or a name that is a combination of both that and some other specified name (e.g. currentTimeMillis_Diffraction_pattern.jpg)
As I am saving two image files, it would be good if I can name the file by the second method, as it gives an ordered list without having to separate the two images into different file folders.
Using time...........+..........._Diffraction_pattern.extension would be great
Thanks
Not sure why you are using a Java function to get the time, rather than built in Matlab time function. I would just use
dateTimeString = datestr(now, 'yyyy-mm-dd-HH_MM_SS_FFF');
Then concatenate that with whatever name you want to create a file name:
myFileName = [dateTimeString '_withSomeName.jpg'];
imwrite( M, myFileName, 'jpg' );
Note - I think that if you include the .jpg extension on the file, it will automatically be converted by imwrite so you don't need the third argument. Also note that using the FFF format specifier will give you the time down to ms - so it's got the same functionality (and granularity) as your original Java function call, but results in more sensible file names.
If you insist on using the Java function, you need to convert it to Matlab's internal clock - this means something like this (untested):
timeNow = javaMethod('currentTimeMillis', 'java.lang.System');
timeMatlab = timeNow / (1000 * 3600 * 24) + datenum('1 Jan 1970');
dateTimeString = datestr(timeMatlab, 'yyyy-mm-dd-HH_MM_SS');
but why would you do that...
String concatenation can be done like this:
filename=[num2str(dateTime) '_Diffraction_pattern.extension'];
Or using sprintf:
filename=sprintf('%d_Diffraction_pattern.extension',dateTime);
Related
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'
How do I create a csv file with date as the name of the csv file. I tried doing it, but the date won't appear only the name does. The language is Scilab which is similar to Matlab.
I do not understand your question fully. But following the csvWrite documentation and the date documentation. You could do someting like this
filename_with_date_string = date() + ".csv";
directory_path = TMPDIR;
// Some matrix you want to save
M = [1:10] * 0.1;
// Create the file
file = fullfile(directory_path, filename_with_date_string);
// Fill it with your matrix
csvWrite(M, file);
Hi there I'm currently trying to find a way to save 2 variables from my workspace into a file. I want the file name to be put together using the original and the current date.
I only want the max value from the variables so:
max(streaking)
and
max(tap_total)
The original file name is:
3_FM001_02_05460$BandP$64_24000_FWD_1x1_PRI_PRI_PRI_PRI_15_17_ActivePixelMeans.csv
The only portion of this original file name that I would like to use is:
3_FM001_02_05460$BandP$64_24000_FWD_1x1
These can be saved in a text file or spreadsheet, it doesnt matter.
An example of the new file name would be something like this:
3_FM001_02_05460$BandP$64_24000_FWD_1x1_7-26-2012
Also,
If something could be done in the file to display which variable is which, for example:
Streaking: 1.272 % this would come from the variable max(streaking)
Tap_Total: 2.252 % this would come from the varaible max(tap_total)
EDIT:
% Construct a questdlg with three options
choice = questdlg('Would you like to save?', ...
'Save Options', ...
'Yes','No','Cancel','Cancel');
% Handle response
switch choice
case 'Yes'
disp([choice ' processing.'])
save_option = 1;
case 'No'
disp([choice ' processing.'])
save_option = 0;
case 'Cancel'
disp('Canceled.')
save_option = 2;
end
file_to_get = evalin( 'base', 'file_to_get' );
streaking = evalin( 'base', 'streaking' );
tap_total = evalin( 'base', 'tap_total' );
if save_option == 0
elseif save_option == 1
max_streak = max(streaking);
max_tap = max(tap_total);
str_streak = mat2str(max_streak);
str_tap = mat2str(max_tap);
fname = file_to_get;
pruned_fname = regexprep(fname,'_PRI(\w*).(\w*)','');
new_fname = [pruned_fname '_' date '.csv'];
path1 = '\\pfile01thn\bbruffey$\My Documents\analysis data\Banding and Streaking Results';
fid = fopen([path1 new_fname], 'w');
fprintf(fid,['Max Banding: %s\nMax Streaking: %s'],str_tap,str_streak)
fclose(fid);
elseif save_option == 2
end
This would be a great place to use the regexprep command to prune the original filename down.
Example:
fname = '3_FM001_02_05460$BandP$64_24000_FWD_1x1_PRI_PRI_PRI_PRI_15_17_ActivePixelMeans.csv';
pruned_fname = regexprep(fname,'_PRI(\w*).(\w*)','');
pruned_fname =
3_FM001_02_05460$BandP$64_24000_FWD_1x1
Now, a note about the regexprep command I used here. This is specific for the filename you provided here. Since it looks like you want to trim off everything after the the first _PRI I used a tag (\w*) which means any combination of [a-z A-Z _ 0-9] can follow. Notice that since this is a filename there is a . there hence why I added a period in and followed that with another (\w*) to finish out the csv. You can find more info on these sorts of operators here.
Now that you have the pruned_fname you can simply add whatever you want to it. So if you want to add the date in with an underscore to space it just simply do something like this:
new_fname = [pruned_fname '_' date '.csv'];
new_fname =
3_FM001_02_05460$BandP$64_24000_FWD_1x1csv_26-Jul-2012.csv
Now you simply need to open the file to write to it. you might need to append the path to where you want to save it, I'm just going to call it path for now. It would be something like C:\Documents\
fid = fopen([path new_fname], 'w')
Now with the fid you have the id of the file you want to write to. This should be a new file and if it isn't you are going to overwrite the file contents if you do it this way. Just be aware =)
Next you can simply write those first two lines to the file using fwrite fprintf, just to name a few possible functions.
Hopefully that'll get you setup there!