Hi Sam, it sounds like what you are doing is correct. Another possible 
solution would be to use mri_binarize, something like
mri_binarize EXAMPLE.nii.gz --match 17 --o left.hippo.nii.gz
This matches the number rather than doing a thresholding. It seems like 
the thresholding should work, but there might be some issue internal to 
fslmaths that is not handling the numerical precision correctly.
doug

On 08/16/2012 09:51 PM, Sam Carpenter wrote:
> Dear life savers, headache relievers and brain science dreamers,
>
> PROLOG:
> I'm trying to separate out some regions from a .nii.gz file.  I start with
> a surface parcellation in .annot (Freesurfer land) that I convert to
> EXAMPLE.nii.gz using mri_aparc2aseg.
>
> THE GOAL:  To get a .nii.gz file for each one of these regions.  Using
> fslmaths, I threshold the EXAMPLE.nii.gz file above&  below the intensity
> of that region&  save as REGION_name.nii.gz.
>
> THE PROBLEM:  This method is working for the majority of the regions.  But
> many of the output REGION_name.nii.gz files are completely empty. They are
> there in the original EXAMPLE.nii.gz but are lost in the thresholding
> some(how/where).
>
> THE SOLUTION: Your kind reply...
>
>
> Thanks very much.
> -Sam
>
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