Extracting data from a 3D cell array into a 2D Matrix - MATLAB - arrays

I have a cell array that is three dimensional i.e. 16x10x3 and I would like for all values in :,:,1 :,:,2 and :,:,3 to be extracted into a column of a matrix each.
I thought about pre-allocating a matrix and then just running a basic loop such as:
for m=1:3
mat(:,m) = ([a{:,:,m}]);
end
Is there a more efficient way of doing this without having to rely on a loop?
EDIT: There are different numbers of values between :,:,1/2/3.

It's high time you get into bsxfun! Here's the implementation -
%// Get the number of elements in each column of the input cell array
lens = sum(cellfun('length',reshape(a,[],size(a,3))),1)
%// Store the maximum number of elements possible in any column of output array
max_lens = max(lens)
%// Setup output array, with no. of rows as max number of elements in each column
%// and no. of columns would be same as the no. of columns in input cell array
mat = zeros(max_lens,numel(lens))
%// Create as mask that has ones to the "extent" of number of elements in
%// each column of the input cell array using the lengths
mask = bsxfun(#le,[1:max_lens]',lens) %//'
%// Finally, store the values from input cell array into masked positions
mat(mask) = [a{:}]

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Search elements of matrix in another cell in matlab

I have a column matrix and a cell array which has two columns.The first column has 1x2 doubles and the second column has 1x1 doubles.
For example
columnMatrix = [1;5];
cellArray = {[1,8],[10];[8,1],[20];[4,6],[80];[3,5],[40];[14,16],[85];[5,10],[36]};
I would like to search each element of columnMatrix in cellArray(:,1) and then return its corresponding value in cellArray(:,2)
For example the output has to be like this
newCell = {[1],[10,20];[5],[40,36]};
I tried using the ismember function in this way
[~,idx] = ismember(cell2mat(cellArray(:,1)),columnMatrix (: , 1));
This returns all the indices which have the searched element but they are in two seperate columns and I can not perform any other logical operation to get the corresponding second column entry.
Is there some way this operation can be achieved? Could some one please help?
Thanks
First of all, convert first column of cellArray to a matrix so it would be easier to search values in. Then iterate over columnMatrix values (e.g. using arrayfun, but you could also use for loop), find rows that match (any across columns) and select corresponding values from the second column of cellArray, converting to numeric array ([cellArray{...,2}]). Finally, append the columnMatrix as the first column of the resulting cell array:
columnMatrix = [1;5]; cellArray = {[1,8],[10];[8,1],[20];[4,6],[80];[3,5],[40];[14,16],[85];[5,10],[36]};
mat = cell2mat(cellArray(:,1));
values = arrayfun(#(x) [cellArray{any(mat==x,2),2}], columnMatrix, 'uni', false);
result = [num2cell(columnMatrix), values];

Adding multiple rows in Array

I have an array A size of 16X16 and I want to add first 3 rows out of 16 in A. What is the most efficient solution in MATLAB?
I tried this code but this is not efficient because I want to extend it for large arrays:
filename = 'n1.txt';
B = importdata(filename);
i = 1;
D = B(i,:)+ B(i+1,:)+ B(i+2,:);
For example, if I want to extend this for an array of size 256x256 and I want to extract 100 rows and add them, how I will do this?
A(1:3,:);%// first three rows.
This uses the standard indices of matrix notation. Check Luis's answer I linked for the full explanation on indices in all forms. For summing things:
B = A(1:100,:);%// first 100 rows
C = sum(B,1);%// sum per column
D = sum(B,2);%// sum per row
E = sum(B(:));%// sum all elements, rows and columns, to a single scalar

How to remove a row from a matrix inside a cell array

I have a cell array (A) with size of 400 x 1 and each cell of this array includes a matrix with size 9 x 4. As such, it looks like this:
A={[9x4 double];[9x4 double];...;[9x4 double]};
Now, I want to remove the zero rows from these sub matrices and then obtain a new A cell array called A_new where its sub matrices don't have any zero rows like this:
A_new={[5x4 double];[7x4 double];...;[4x4 double]};
By my below code, I can find the index of rows which are not zero but I couldn't create my cell array like I mentioned above. This is my written code and for the bold part, I have a problem and I couldn't solve it.
for i=1:A_Length
[row,col]=find(A{i,1});
out=[row col];
NNZ_row=unique(row);
Length_NNZ= length(NNZ_row);
for j=1:Length_NNZ
**A_NonZero{i,1}= ??????????**
end
end
What I would do is take each cell, then use all on the opposite of the matrix over all of the columns in each row to determine which rows contain all zeroes. Once you do this, use these locations and remove those rows from this matrix and save this to your new matrix.
As such, do this:
A_new = cell(1,numel(A));
for i=1:numel(A)
mat = A{i};
ind = all(~mat, 2);
A_new{i} = mat(~ind,:);
end
The first line of code creates a new cell array that is the same size as A. Next, for each element in A, extract the matrix at each cell location, use all on the opposite of this matrix to find those elements that we need to keep, then save this new matrix into the corresponding location in A_new.
If you want to do this in a single line of code, use cellfun:
A_new = cellfun(#(x) x(~all(~x,2),:), A, 'uni', 0);
The first argument to cellfun is an anonymous function that performs what the for loop was doing. We find those rows that contain all zeroes and use those to remove the rows in each matrix in the cell array. The second argument is the matrix we want to operate on, which is A. The 'uni' and 0 flags are important because the outputs are not single values but matrices, and so the output of this function will be a cell array that is the same size as A where each element is the matrix for those corresponding locations in A with the zero rows removed.
You should use a combination of cellfun and any:
A_new = cellfun(#(x) x(any(x~=0,2),:), A, 'UniformOutput', false);
should do the trick.

How to permute the arrays within a cell array without using loops

I have a two arrays within a <1x2 cell>. I want to permute those arrays. Of course, I could use a loop to permute each one, but is there any way to do that task at once, without using loops?
Example:
>> whos('M')
Name Size Bytes Class Attributes
M 1x2 9624 cell
>> permute(M,p_matrix)
This does not permute the contents of the two arrays within M.
I could use something like:
>> for k=1:size(M,2), M{k} = permute(M{k},p_matrix); end
but I'd prefer not to use loops.
Thanks.
This seems to work -
num_cells = numel(M) %// Number of cells in input cell array
size_cell = size(M{1}) %// Get sizes
%// Get size of the numeric array that will hold all of the data from the
%// input cell array with the second dimension representing the index of
%// each cell from the input cell array
size_num_arr = [size_cell(1) num_cells size_cell(2:end)]
%// Dimensions array for permuting with the numeric array holding all data
perm_dim = [1 3:numel(size_cell)+1 2]
%// Store data from input M into a vertically concatenated numeric array
num_array = vertcat(M{:})
%// Reshape and permute the numeric array such that the index to be used
%// for indexing data from different cells ends up as the final dimension
num_array = permute(reshape(num_array,size_num_arr),perm_dim)
num_array = permute(num_array,[p_matrix numel(size_cell)+1])
%// Save the numeric array as a cell array with each block from
%// thus obtained numeric array from its first to the second last dimension
%// forming each cell
size_num_arr2 = size(num_array)
size_num_arr2c = num2cell(size_num_arr2(1:end-1))
M = squeeze(mat2cell(num_array,size_num_arr2c{:},ones(1,num_cells)))
Some quick tests show that mat2cell would prove to be the bottleneck, so if you don't mind indexing into the intermediate numeric array variable num_array and use it's last dimension for an equivalent indexing into M, then this approach could be useful.
Now, another approach if you would like to preserve the cell format would be with arrayfun, assuming each cell of M to be a 4D numeric array -
M = arrayfun(#(x) num_array(:,:,:,:,x),1:N,'Uniform',0)
This seems to perform much better than with mat2cell in terms of performance.
Please note that arrayfun isn't a vectorized solution as most certainly it uses loops behind-the-scenes and seems like mat2cell is using for loops inside its source code, so please do keep all these issues in mind.

Matlab Cell Array Data

I have a cell array it is 100x1, variable name is CellA. As you will see from the png file attached, the cell array contains various size matrices in each of the 100 different cells.
I want to extract that data. Actually, I am trying to find the number of unique elements in each cell and their frequency. Below is my code which gets dimensional errors:
for i=1:length(CellA)
if isempty(CellA{i})
continue;% do nothing
else
unqmz(i,:) = unique(CellA{i})';
countmz(i,:) = histc(CellA{i}, unqmz(i))';
end
Eventually, I want to plot count versus unique number for each different cell array where the total number of counts for that cell exceeds a pre-determined value. e.g.) 4
You can also do it this way:
unqmz = cellfun(#unique, CellA, 'uni', 0);
countmz = arrayfun(#(n) histc(CellA{n},unqmz{n}), 1:numel(CellA), 'uni', 0).';
See if this works out for you -
%// Get result data into unqmz and countmz
unqmz = cell(numel(CellA),1);
countmz = cell(numel(CellA),1);
for ii=1:numel(CellA)
if isempty(CellA{ii})
continue;% do nothing
else
unqmz(ii) = {unique(CellA{ii})'} %//'
countmz(ii) = {histc(CellA{ii}, cell2mat(unqmz(ii)))'} %//'
end
end
%// Count of number of unique numbers in each cell
count_uniqs = cellfun(#numel,unqmz);
%// Plot (assuming you want to plot everything in one figure window)
figure,
for k = 1:size(countmz,1)
if count_uniqs(k)>4
plot(cell2mat(unqmz(k)),cell2mat(countmz(k)),'x')
hold on
end
end

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