How to extract max from a cell?

Hi, I'm dealing with image/video processing and I would like to extract the area of the biggest connected component for each frame. I have created a cell structure with the areas of each connected component in each frame. The problem is to create a proper "for loop" to store the values of max areas(from each frame) in an array. Then, I would like to do the same thing with mean(s) of pixels' intensity (for the biggest connected component). Any help will be extremely valuable. Thank you, Luisa

Answer 1

[Sandro Lecci]

Dear Luisa,

maybe the function cellfun does what you are looking for.

A = cell(3,1);
%Store with 3 matrices of different sizes
A{1} = magic(10);
A{2} = rand(20);
A{3} = ones(30);
%Extract the max of all cells
maxA = cellfun(@(X) max(max(X)), A)

Best, Sandro

Answer 2

[KSSV]

% make some random cell for demo 
A = cell(10,1) ;
for i = 1:10
    A{i} = rand(randperm(10,1),1) ;
end
% get max using loop
iwant = zeros(length(A),1) ;
for i = 1:length(A)
    iwant(i) = max(A{i}) ;
end
% use cellfun
m = cellfun(@max,A) ;

[iwant m]