Image File Formats Matlab. For example the file extension bmp specifies the microsoft windows bitmap format. The following table shows the file formats that you can import and export from the matlab application.
The toolbox supports reading and writing medical file formats including dicom nifti and analyze 7 5. Read write and query image files. Read write and query image files working with image formats.
In its native form a graphics file format image is not stored as a matlab matrix or even necessarily as a matrix.
The toolbox supports reading and writing medical file formats including dicom nifti and analyze 7 5. Most graphics files begin with a header containing format specific information tags and continue with bitmap data that can be read as a continuous stream. To import data into the matlab workspace from a graphics file use the imread function. For a gif file if idx is 1 5 then imread returns only the first five frames.