Deforming an image without changing axis scale

I have a image where when I convert the dimensions from pixels to micrometers, the size of the picture is has a long x-axis and very short y-axis (shown in first image attached). I want to know it there is a way to resize the picture but keep the same axis? When ever I try to use the imresize function the axis always change to the actual pixel size (shown in second image attached). I am trying to get a similar size to the second picture but have the same axis lables in the first picture.

Answer 1

[ANKUR KUMAR]

You can use axis square to force image to be square. See this below example.

Let us load sample image:

corn_gray = imread('corn.tif',3);
figure
imshow(corn_gray(:,1:100)')
axis on

figure
imshow(corn_gray(:,1:100)')
axis square
axis on

[Elana Peisner]

Thank you! that works :)