Question

I have two different types of dicom(medical imaging files) in the same folder. I want to sort them into two different arrays one for the SE006 and the other for the SE014.

    MR-ST001-SE006-0001.dcm... MR-ST001-SE006-0021.dcm  
    MR-ST001-SE014-0001.dcm... MR-ST001-SE014-0013.dcm 

I have been using something like this code below but it is wrong I think I have some syntax errors.

  if image == 'MR-ST001-SE006-%4.4.dcm'
      SE006(end+1) = image 
  if image == 'MR-ST001-SE014-%4.4.dcm'
      SE014(end+1) = image 

Anyone have any tips to help improve this so it works?

Answer 1

You can read all the files into a cell array with DIR command and then use CELLFUN to vectorize the solution from @jonsca.

files = dir('MR-ST001-SE*.dcm');
dcmnames = {files(:).name}';
idx06 = ~cellfun(@isempty,strfind(dcmnames,'SE006'));
idx14 = ~cellfun(@isempty,strfind(dcmnames,'SE014'));
SE006 = dcmnames(idx06);
SE014 = dcmnames(idx14);