minimun value in 2D array

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Khawaja Asim
Khawaja Asim on 19 Dec 2011
Answered: Kevin Schroeder on 9 Nov 2021
Can some body show me how to find minimum value in an image or 2D array along with its index. Regards

Answers (2)

Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 19 Dec 2011
doc min;
And an example:
A = magic(100);
[Amin minidx] = min(A(:));

Kevin Schroeder
Kevin Schroeder on 9 Nov 2021
I think you are looking for the minimum across both dimensions; something like this:
A = magic(5);
minValue = min(min(A));
[ind1, ind2] = find(A==minValue);
There are other ways to do this. For example, you can reshape the 2D array into a 1D array, and call min(), but then you have to convert the index back to the equivalent value for the 2D array using ind2sub(). I'm not sure wich is fast for large arrays, but the above method is more intuitive (in my opinion).

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