Add an ROI toolbar to your figure

This function adds an ROI toolbar to your figure.

You are now following this Submission

This function adds an ROI toolbar to your figure.
The ROIs are created using matlab buid-in class imroi.

addRoiToolbar: Add an ROI toolbar to the current figure.
addRoiToolbar(h): Add an ROI toolbar to the figure with a handle h.

Example 1:
load mri;
imshow(D(:,:,14));
addRoiToolbar;
Example 2 (Multiple images):
load mri;
imdisp(D(:,:,1:8));
addRoiToolbar;

Now draw some ROIs,and right click on one of them, you will see more functions in a context menu, such as:
* change color
* histogram
* x-y plot
* delete

Thanks to the "draggable" made by Francois Bouffard, you can drag around the textbox of ROI info.

imdisp is a nice tool to display multiple images in one figure, written by Oliver Woodford

see also: imroi, imrect, imellipse, imfreehand, imline.

Cite As

Yi Sui (2026). Add an ROI toolbar to your figure (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/41120-add-an-roi-toolbar-to-your-figure), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired by: imdisp, ROIRool, draggable

Inspired: imstack, Enhanced Dicom Viewer

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.3.0.0

Add a slider to adjust the number of bins in histogram

1.2.0.0

Live update for histogram and x-y plot.
Display ROI area in ROI info textbox.
Display distance for line.
Work when there are multiple images in one figure.
Bug fixes.

1.1.0.0

bug fixes

1.0.0.0