Hi, I'm a new FSL user and I'm trying to perform a Vertex Analysis with FIRST. I've segmented all the images, that are placed all in the same folder, and I've concatenated the bvars files of the structure I'm examining with the corresponding command. I've also created the design.mat file. Now I'm trying to run the command: >first_utils --vertexAnalysis --usebvars -i BrStem_all.bvars -d design.mat -o shape_analysis/BrStem_all --useReconNative --useRigidAlign -v but it stops with the message "Abort trap". I don't know exactly which could be the problem. It's not clear if it can't read the files or if the design.mat file is not in the correct format. The images are of 38 subjects, 20 controls and 18 subjects. Could you please help me? What is the problem? Thank you very much Domenico Aquino -- Eng. Domenico Aquino Department of Neuroradiology IRCCS Foundation Neurological Institute "C.Besta" Via Celoria 11, 20133 Milano, Italy ph: +39-0223942472 fax: +39-0223942543 email: [log in to unmask]