Error when running totalsegmentator json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[NathanMolinier]

Description

I'm trying to run total segmentator MRI but run into an error:

If you use this tool please cite: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230024

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/bin/TotalSegmentator", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/totalsegmentator/bin/TotalSegmentator.py", line 143, in main
    totalsegmentator(args.input, args.output, args.ml, args.nr_thr_resamp, args.nr_thr_saving,
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/totalsegmentator/python_api.py", line 129, in totalsegmentator
    setup_totalseg()
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/totalsegmentator/config.py", line 60, in setup_totalseg
    config = json.load(f)
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/home/GRAMES.POLYMTL.CA/p118739/.conda/envs/total_env/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Steps to reproduce

• Create an environment with python 3.9 or 3.11 (I used conda)
• conda install pytorch==2.5.1 torchvision==0.20.1 torchaudio==2.5.1 pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia
• pip install TotalSegmentator
• TotalSegmentator -i $img -o segmentations --task total_mr