how to convert grey image to RGB

hi All,

i have 60 slice image SPECT in grey scale. How to convert all to RGB?

Below is my coding.

P = zeros(103, 103, 60);
for K = 1 : 60
    K_file=30+10*K;
    petname = sprintf('I%d.dcm', K_file);
    P(:,:,K) = dicomread(petname);
         scale = 130/103 ;
 Pi(:,:,K) = imresize(P(:,:,K),scale) ; % where P is your 103*103 3D matrix
 
end

rgbImage = gray2rgb(Pi);
imshow3D(rgbImage)

this is my function

function [Image]=gray2rgb(Image)
%Gives a grayscale image an extra dimension
%in order to use color within it
[m n]=size(Image);
rgb=zeros(m,n,3);
rgb(:,:,1)=Image;
rgb(:,:,2)=rgb(:,:,1);
rgb(:,:,3)=rgb(:,:,1);
Image=rgb/255;
end

i got error

Unable to perform assignment because the size of the left side is 130-by-7800 and the size of
the right side is 130-by-130-by-60.

Error in gray2rgb (line 6)
rgb(:,:,1)=Image;

Error in sliderspect1 (line 12)
rgbImage = gray2rgb(Pi);

I DONT KNOW HOW COME LEFT SIDE-BY-7800...

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

This is wrong:

[m n]=size(Image);

Why? See Steve's blog:

Too much information about the size function | Steve on Image Processing

It should be

[rows, columns, numberOfSlices] = size(Image);

but don't use Image as the name of your variable since that's a built-in function (almost). Also, the pet/spect image is already grayscale. You shouldn't need to convert to gray scale.

Also, you did not make a color image, you made a volumetric image with 60 gray scale slices in it.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but what you did doesn't make sense to me.

If you're trying to make a volumetric image with 60 RGB slices in it instead of 60 gray scale images, you'll need a 4-D image where the 4th dimension is the slice number and the third dimension is the color channel (1, 2, or 3).

[mohd akmal masud]

actually i want the grey image convert to RGB image.

as I attached, grey image and RGB. RGB come from grey image.

[Image Analyst]

You can do

grayImage = rgb2gray(rgbImage);

but it might look weird unless you have the colormap they applied to the gray image to get that rgb image. If you have that colormap, you can do

grayImage = rgb2ind(rgbImage, colorMap);

and this will of course be a lot better and actually accurate, unlike the first way.

In the future, please start a new question for something like this.