matlab - Apply the same function multiple time with different sets of arguments -

here part of function, want past 4 sets of data function blood_type.

in each set, 1 of arguments numeric , character.

for output type , vol, each of them 3d-matrix of size 80*80*2.

i want have neat way such can obtain all_type result concatenating 4 outputs of blood_type (each type each patient_id , patient_name).

all_type = cat(3, type1, type2, type3, type4)

similarly, want have

all_vol = cat(3, vol1, vol2, vol3, vol4)

instead of writing:

[type1 vol1] = blood_type(1, 'ann'); [type2 vol2] = blood_type(2, 'ben'); [type3 vol3] = blood_type(3, 'chris'); [type4 vol4] = blood_type(4, 'david'); 

are there ways can choose pair of arguments , produce outputs more efficient? because have hundreds of patients , cumbersome if type hundreds of times names , ids.

thanks in advance.

here's approach, using cellfun;

%'the arguments of function need typed once anyways' patient_id   = {1,2,3,4}; patient_name = {'ann','ben','chris','david'};  [all_type, all_vol] = cellfun( ...    @blood_type, patient_id, patient_name, ...    'uniformoutput', false ... );  all_type = cat(3, all_type{:}); all_vol  = cat(3, all_vol{:});