I need to overlay a color map over a gray scale image with with the colorbar on the side.

I know there are similar post but I was unable to get them working. Attached is one matfile which contains 2 variables. I would like the colormap (Tmap) overlayed on a gray-scaled imaged on the variable 'x'. I also need all the zeroes not to show and and a colorbar shown on the side. Thanks for the assistance. You can see what I tried to do to get it working. Thanks for the help.

 figure; imagesc(Tmap); colormap(jet); colorbar;
mask=Tmap>0;
figure; imshow(mask);
overlayImage=gray2ind(double(Tmap)/max(Tmap(:)),128);
overlayRGB=ind2rgb(overlayImage,jet(128));
x=im2double(x);
x=gray2ind(double(x)/max(x(:)),128);
vvv=[37 45]; %Set the colorbar axis
h=subimage(x);
set(h,'AlphaData',mask);
imagesc(Tmap);colormap(jet);colorbar; caxis(vvv);
hold on;
h=subimage(x);
set(h,'AlphaData',~mask)
h=gcf;
saveas(h,'NiceTherm')

Answer 1

[Teja Muppirala]

Something like this maybe?

figure;
ax1 = axes;
imagesc(x);
colormap(ax1,'gray');
ax2 = axes;
imagesc(ax2,Tmap,'alphadata',Tmap>0);
colormap(ax2,'jet');
caxis(ax2,[min(nonzeros(Tmap)) max(nonzeros(Tmap))]);
ax2.Visible = 'off';
linkprop([ax1 ax2],'Position');
colorbar;

[Chris]

That looks like it should work but I'm getting an error when I run it. The version I'm using is 2012a. it seems it doesn't like the line "imagesc(ax2,Tmap,'alphadata',Tmap>0);"

Error using image Incorrect number of arguments specified

Error in imagesc (line 40) hh = image(varargin{:},'CDataMapping','scaled');

[Chris]

I have confirmed this works on matlab 2017 but won't work on 2012. Thanks for your help!

[M J]

Thank you, this works for me!

However, I fail to do this in a subplot. Can you help me with this?