Display imagesc with custom values on x- and y-axis

Question

I'm using MATLABS function imagesc to plot a 6x6 matrix of doubles. This is the plot I get:

What I want to do is change the values on the x- and y-axis to values that I choose myself.

For example, I want to replace the values 1-6 with my own vector [10, 16, 53, 97, 136 191] so that they are displayed on the x- and/or y-axis.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can modify the XTickLabel and YTickLabel properties for this.

In MATLAB r2014b or higher you should:

ax=gca;
ax.XTickLabel = {'10', '16', '53', '97', '136', '191'};
ax.YTickLabel = {'10', '16', 'look a banana', '97', 'yeah you can write whatever', '191'};

In previous versions do

ax=gca;
set(ax,'XTickLabel',{'10', '16', '53', '97', '136', '191'})
set(ax,'YTickLabel',{'10', '16', 'look a banana', '97', 'yeah you can write whatever', '191'})

More info:

Change Axis Tick Value Locations and Labels, The Mathworks