You're better off loading in the surface annotation directly rather 
than  dealing with aparc+aseg. To make surf2surf output the right 
dimensions, add --noreshape.

doug

Joonkoo Park wrote:
> Dear Surfers,
>
> I (successfully) resampled a functional data on the surface map using
> mri_vol2surf:
>
>   
>> mri_vol2surf --mov func.nii --reg register.dat --projfrac 0.5 --interp 
>> nearest --hemi lh --o lh.func.mgh
>>     
>
> Then, I normalized this image to a standard space (fsaverage) using
> mri_surf2surf:
>
>   
>> mri_surf2surf --srcsubject sub1 --trgsubject fsaverage --sval 
>> sub1/lh.func.mgh --tval sub1/lh.func.norm.mgh --fwhm 5 --cortex --hemi lh
>>     
>
> The dimension of the output file, lh.func.norm.mgh, was 163842 x 1 x 1
> (identified from mri_info). This file can be opened from Matlab, and I
> can successfully get access to 163842 vertices. What I want now is to
> take the aparc+aseg information from the average brain (fsaverage) and
> be able identify which vertex falls under which ROI label. I decided
> to resample aparc+aseg.mgz in fsaverage on the surface map, hoping to
> get label information at the dimension of 163842 x 1 x 1. So I ran:
>
>   
>> mri_vol2surf --mov fsaverage/mri/aparc+aseg.mgz --regheader fsaverage 
>> --projfrac 0.5 --interp nearest --hemi lh --o fsaverage/surf/lh.roi.mgh
>> mri_vol2surf --mov fsaverage/mri/aparc+aseg.mgz --regheader fsaverage 
>> --projfrac 0.5 --interp nearest --hemi rh --o fsaverage/surf/rh.roi.mgh
>>     
>
> The resulting mgh files, however, had a dimension of 23406 x 1 x 7.
>
> 1. As I said, I wanted to get label information (roi number from the
> FreeSurferColorLUT) for each vertex of the surface image in the
> fsaverage space. Is this the right approach? And did I do this
> correctly (I'm concerned about many options above)?
>
> 2. If so, why is the resulting dimension different from the other one?
> I assume that it's probably a reshape issue, but how I can reshape the
> dimension to match 163842 x 1 x 1?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Joon
>
> --
> Joonkoo Park
> Ph.D. Candidate, Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
> Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
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