Thank you Doug. I was actually referring to the following values (example of my log output below):

$Id: mri_glmfit.c,v 1.196.2.8 2012/11/01 18:51:41 greve Exp $
cwd /Volumes/pathname
cmdline mri_glmfit --y /Volumes/pathname/lh.Group_abcd.thickness.10.mgh --C ./pathname/tmp.mri_glmfit-sim-34418/Group-diff_abcd.mtx --C ./pathname/tmp.mri_glmfit-sim-34418/Group-avg_abcd.mtx --mask ./pathname/mask.mgh --sim mc-z 5000 1.3 ./pathname/csd/mc-z.abs.1.3.j001 --sim-sign abs --fwhm 13.034857 --fsgd ./pathname/y.fsgd dods --label /Volumes/pathname/lh_abcd_mask.label --surf fsaverage lh white 
sysname  Darwin
hostname computer.local
machine  x86_64
user     jeni
FixVertexAreaFlag = 1
UseMaskWithSmoothing     1
fwhm     13.034857
niters    125.000000
OneSampleGroupMean 0
y    /Volumes/pathname/lh.Group_abcd.thickness.10.mgh
logyflag 0
usedti  0
FSGD ./pathname/y.fsgd
labelmask  /Volumes/pathname/lh_abcd_mask.label
maskinv 0
glmdir (null)
IllCondOK 0
ReScaleX 1
DoFFx 0
Loading y from /Volumes/pathname/lh.Group_abcd.thickness.10.mgh
INFO: gd2mtx_method is dods
Normalized matrix condition is 14.1782
Matrix condition is 289425
Found 9260 points in label.
Found 7440 voxels in mask
Reshaping mriglm->mask...
search space = 3795.353314
DOF = 37
thresh = 1.3, threshadj = 0.99897 

I do see that it gives information on the number of voxels in the mask (which is 7440 in the above example). What I was referring to is the next number "search space = 3795.35..."
Is that the search area?

Also in your reply, I see the need to specify the mask.mgh. How do I specify it if my mask is a label file and not in mgh format?

Thanks again.

Jeni

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:21 PM Douglas Greve wrote:
That number is in voxels or vertices. If you want surface area, then use 
mri_segstats something like
mri_segstats --i $SUBJECTS_DIR/fsaverage/surf/lh.white.avg.area.mgh --seg glmdir/mask.mgh --id 1 --accumulate --sum sum.dat doug On 10/29/15 5:10 PM, Jeni Chen wrote: > Hello, > > When running the Clusterwise Correction for Multiple Comparisons, I used a > label as a mask to restrict search area. I want to find out the size of that > label, so I guess I can pull that information out from the "mri_glmfit.log", > specifically under 'searchspace'? Also I only see a numerical value there, I > assume it is in mm2? > > Thanks. > > Jeni