Hello,

I'm attempting to convert labels from one subject's cortical surface to locations or nodes on another's cortical surface via spherical registration.  My thought was to use mri_label2label, e.g.

mri_label2label --srcsubject Bob --srclabel Bob/label/lh.cortex.label  --trgsubject bert --trglabel Bob/label/bobToBert.lh.cortex.label --regmethod surface --hemi lh

My understanding is that this should translate the labels for the nodes on Bob's lh surface to labels/nodes/locations (I'm not really sure which) on bert's lh surface.  However, each label file seems to end up with a different number of labels.

Bob/label/lh.cortex.label: 146415
Bob/label/bobToBert.lh.cortex.label: 122917
bert/label/lh.cortex.label: 122108
bert/label/bertToBob.lh.cortex.label: 145629

Can someone explain more precisely what mri_label2label does and what output it produces?

Thanks.

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Stephen Tyree
Neuroimaging Computer Scientist
Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Tulsa, OK, USA