Hello,

On Freesurfer 3.0.4, I used 'mri_annotation2label' to derive a set of labels from the Desikan atlas annotation file (lh.aparc.annot).

If I then run mris_anatomical_stats using the label files, e.g., mris_anatomical_stat -l lh.bankssts.label $subj lh

the resulting statistics that are output for that structure do not match those in lh.aparc.stats except for average thickness.

Is a difference to be expected between the -a and -l approaches for obtaining statistics via mris_anatomical_stats? What is the source of this discrepancy?

thanks, Mike H.