Discrepancy Between fslstats Output and fsleyes Visualization for NIFTI Images

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Hello everyone,

I’m encountering an inconsistency when processing a NIFTI image with FSL tools, and I’d appreciate any insights or suggestions. I am working on a dataset where I segment the glioma region from MR images. I used fslstats to get the range of intensity values within the segmented region, and the command returned: fslstats ST_amines_resampled_masked_lesion.nii.gz -R
-1.956921 9.590046. However, when I visually inspected the same file using fsleyes , the histogram showed peaks around 1 and 4, with essentially no data near the value 9 (I attchecd the histogram images). So, Why might there be such a discrepancy between the fslstats output and fsleyes visualization?
Here is the histogram image.

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Thanks

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Hi @curtis_sohn, the fslstats -R option gives you the minimum and maximum intensities across all voxels in your image, whereas the FSLeyes plot is showing a histogram - it is telling you that most of the voxels in e.g. the images plotted in red have intensities in the range ~(2,4), but there are other voxels in these images which extend the range out to ~(-1,10).