MATLAB: Imregionalmax to find peaks in 3d. I get an error Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

3d peaksimregionalmax

As said in the title I have got an error using imregionalmax. I have two monotone variable xVec, yVec and a third dependent variable imageMag that is experimental value. imageMag is 31×593. I have used
x=xVec;
y=yVec;
z=imageMag;
mesh(x,y,z,'FaceColor','interp')
ix = find(imregionalmax(z));
hold on
plot3(x(ix),y(ix),z(ix),'r*','MarkerSize',24)
but it says that index exceeds matrix dimensions. Why?

Best Answer

I'm just guessing, but that code snippet is assuming that x & y are full, 2D arrays. The mesh function allows for another case where they're vectors. From the name of your variables, I would guess that you've got that case.
If that's the case, you can expand the vectors out to 2D arrays using meshgrid :
[x,y] = meshgrid(xVec,yVec);
z = imageMag;
mesh(x,y,z,'FaceColor','interp')
ix = find(imregionalmax(z));
hold on
plot3(x(ix),y(ix),z(ix),'r*','MarkerSize',24)
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