How to reference values in cell array containing matrices

I have a cell in which each element is a matrix. I would like to extract a vector containing all the matrices' entries for row 5, column 4. Is this possible, without having to loop through the matrices and extract the value? Here's an example,

% Create the cell array
for iMatrix = 1:10
  a{iMatrix} = rand(12, 13); % Each element of this cell array is a matrix
end
iRow = 5; iCol = 4; % Indices to the value to extract from each matrix

% Unsuccessful attempts
a{:}(iRow,iCol)
Expected one output from a curly brace or dot indexing expression, but there were 10 results.

a(:)(iRow,iCol)
Error: ()-indexing must appear last in an index expression.

a(iRow,iCol)
Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Use cellfun.

This seems to work:

% Create the cell array

for iMatrix = 1:10
  DisplayMatrix = rand(12, 13)
  a{iMatrix} = DisplayMatrix; % Each element of this cell array is a matrix
end
iRow = 5; iCol = 4; % Indices to the value to extract from each matrix

Extracted = cellfun(@(x) x(iRow,iCol), a)               % Desired Result

[KAE]

Great, that works.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure.