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I have recently started using FreeSurfer 6.0 after previously working with 5.3 for several years. I found that the lh.aparc.a2009s.stats files use different ROI names (e.g., G&S_frontomargin) than they did in FS5.3 (G_and_S_frontomargin). However, the FreeSurferColorLUT.txt file still has the old names.
What caused the ROI names to change for the a2009s.stats files? Was the ColorLUT supposed to have been updated but wasn’t? Where do those shorter names come from? Is there already a mapping file for the different versions of the names?
Because some of the parcel names in the stats files no longer match the LUT, my existing code for compiling FreeSurfer results fails to load the results for those ROIs with new names.
I think I can find a work-around for this, such as using a mapping file or a renaming rule applied to the a2009s stats ROI names, before matching to the LUT.
But I thought I would email this list to raise the issue. I searched the archives and didn’t see something similar, so maybe no one else tries to match those names to the LUT.