You're right - aseg.stats refers to the aseg.mgz and you should use that.
You would only use the wm parcellations from the wmparc.mgz
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Ed Gronenschild wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to find out this from previous contributions
> but got lost.
> There's some confusion on which file(s) to use
> for segmented volumes.
> FreeSurfer generates the following image and
> text files:
> - aseg.mgz
> - aseg.stats
> - aparc+aseg.mgz
> - wmparc.mgz
> - wmparc.stats
>
> To my best knowledge aseg.stats contains
> the volumes from the structures in aseg.mgz,
> but corrected for partial volume effects.
>
> The volumes listed in the aseg.stats and
> wmparc.stats are in most cases different.
> Which volumes are the correct ones and
> to which of the image files are these
> referring?
>
> Ed
>
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