Hi, This looks like nothing survived the FDR correction, although I'm not exactly sure why it is causing an error. However, I still recommend upgrading to FSL version 5, as there are much better options for multiple comparison correction there. All the best, Mark On 23 Jan 2013, at 05:13, Kyoo H. Cho <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear experts > > Hello, > > When doing a surface vertex analysis, I encountered an error message on running surface_fdr > > I ran script : surface _fdr diff_BvsA_L_Thal_mni_RigidAlign1.vtk > > And error message : > > open file diff_BvsA_L_Thal_mni_RigidAlign1_pvals.vtk to save. > succesfully opened file diff_BvsA_L_Thal_mni_RigidAlign1_pvals.vtk to save. > FDR threshold is 0 > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NEWMAT::IndexException' > /usr/local/fsl/bin/surface_fdr: line 110: 22485 Aborted (core dumped) $FSLDIR/bin/run_mesh_utils -m ${infile}.vtk -i ${infile}_Fthresh -o ${infile}_Fthresh.vtk --doVolumeToScalars > > > where "diff_BvsA_L_Thal_mni_RigidAlign1.vtk" is my vertex analysis file (.vtk), which derived from; > > first_utils -usebvars -vertexAnalysis -i <input> -o <output> -d design.mat --useReconMNI --useRigidAlign --surfaceout > > Also, in addition to error message, output files (_pvals.vtk & _Fthresh.vtk) are not generated. > > I can't figure out cause of problem.. > > Regards, > Cho