In that case please upload the actual data that is failing.

On 01/26/2017 01:22 PM, Eli Johnson wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Yes, I have a series of masks that I have created to cover the whole cortex, 
> but I want to examine the regions separately. Each region outputs a volume 
> much smaller than I would expect given the volumes from aseg stats for the 
> whole cortex. That is to say, when I combine the volume from each region 
> although I would expect it to be different to the volume from aseg stats 
> (aseg stats is of course highly optimized), it's a lot smaller than expected 
> - around half the size.
>
> Sorry for not being more clear!
> Thanks
>
>> On 26 Jan 2017, at 18:11,y Douglas N Greve <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In looking at your mask, it covers only half (or less) of the brain.
>> This would explain why the total volume you get from the mask is much
>> lesss than the total gm volume reported in aseg.stats.
>>
>>
>>> On 01/20/2017 12:08 PM, Eli Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> *Hi Doug,*
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *Thanks a lot for your help!*
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *I have run these commands and they complete with no problems. I can
>>> also view the region overlaid on a surface and this looks ok, however
>>> the volumes that are extracted from mri_segstats are much lower than
>>> expected - around half the volume expected, and they don't seem in
>>> line with the volumes automatically extracted (i.e. total cortical gm
>>> volume from the aseg.stats file). Any thoughts on why this might be?*
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *Many thanks!*
>>>
>>> *Eli
>>> *
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *Douglas N Greve*greve at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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>>> I would probably map the mask to the surface,eg,
>>>
>>> mri_vol2surf --regheadersubject --hemi lh --projfrac 0.5 --i
>>> scan500_std/mri/500_lobes_1-in-fs.mgz --interp nearest --o lh.mask.mgz
>>>
>>> The run
>>>
>>> mri_segstats --seg lh.mask.mgz --id 1 --accumulate --i lh.volume --o
>>> lh.vol.stats
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* Eli Johnson <[email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2017 4:24 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* Cortical volume from masked region
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to extract the volume from a FreeSurfer segmented scan
>>> within a pre-registered mask region, but only within the cortex, and
>>> wanted to check my command.
>>>
>>>
>>> The mask is a binary mask (value of 1 across the mask) and is in the
>>> same space as the orig.mgz file. It covers part of the frontal lobe.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have run:
>>>
>>> mri_segstats --seg ./scan500_std/mri/500_lobes_1-in-fs.mgz --id 1 --i
>>> ./scan500_std/mri/aparc+aseg.mgz --accumulate --sum test.reg1.sum
>>>
>>>
>>> This has output a text file with a value of 495563 mm3 in the last row.
>>>
>>>
>>> I wanted to check whether this is the correct command to extract only
>>> cortical GM within this mask. If this is correct, should be adding
>>> other flags (e.g. -pv). I have searched the mailing list and the
>>> options for mri_segstats, but I'm not 100% confident in what I've done
>>> - so any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Eli
>>>
>>>
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