How to store multiple image vectors into matrix rows?

Hi all, I have a folder which contains 200 BMP images, I am reading all the images, converting each image into a vector and then trying to store these image vectors into a matrix. Following is the code which is self-explanatory, though it looks quite right however when i run the script it give me the following error. Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.

Error in Readallimages (line 16) immat(437580,k)=imtovector

    myFolder = 'C:\Users\Sana\Desktop\DermoscopyImages';
if ~isdir(myFolder)
  errorMessage = sprintf('Error: The following folder does not exist:\n%s', myFolder);
  uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage));
  return;
end
filePattern = fullfile(myFolder, '*.bmp');
bmpFiles = dir(filePattern);
immat=zeros(437580,200);
for k = 1:length(bmpFiles)
  baseFileName = bmpFiles(k).name;
  fullFileName = fullfile(myFolder, baseFileName);
  fprintf(1, 'Now reading %s\n', fullFileName);
  imageArray = rgb2gray(imread(fullFileName));  %Read image and convert to Gray 
  imtovector=double(imageArray(:));             %convert 2D image into 1D vector
  immat(437580,k)=imtovector                    %Store image vectors into matrix
  imshow(imageArray);  % Display image.
  drawnow; % Force display to update immediately.
end

Any sort of help in this regard would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You may run out of memory. Why do you think you need to do this? You may not have to. You may be able to just read in and process one image at a time.

[Sana Ullah]

Sir, Actually what i am trying to do is that, store all these 200 images into single matrix, then build similar matrix of the ground truths and pass this input and output to neural network, train the neural network with these sets of images and then do segmentation of these images using neural network. this would be the first step. as soon as i do this task successfully, i would further add some other functions as activation function in the neurons instead of sigmoid function .

Answer 2

[Phil]

I think the problem is that you are trying to squeeze a 437580 element array into a single array element (the bottom element of the kth column):

 immat(437580,k)=imtovector

I think you meant to reference the WHOLE column, not just the last element of the column:

 immat(:,k)=imtovector

If the problem persists, check that 'imtovector' really is 437580 elements long.

Also check the orientation of 'imtovector'. You are attempting to store each image as a column, so if 'imtovector' is a row, MATLAB might have an issue with that.

Hope this helps

[Sana Ullah]

Thanks a lot Image analyst and Phil for your precious time and suggestions. problem solved.

[habtamu miheretie]

hello man, can you share how you solved it, please?

[OO_98]

hello,Please tell us how you solved the problem. I need that a lot