Patent Document ID: 20030118221
Application ID: 10277589
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A medical imaging station including acquisition means for obtaining images having gray levels, display means for displaying the images, segmentation means for segmenting at least one imaged object in an image, using means of propagating an edge on the points of the image from at least one initial point positioned in the image on the imaged object by point positioning means, a propagation whose speed depends on said gray levels at each point referred to as the current point, the segmentation being effected between the points through which the edge passes and the points through which the edge does not pass, characterized in that the edge propagation means are coupled with means for the automatic detection of emergence of the propagation edge from the imaged object at a current point, means for local fixing of the speed of propagation at zero at this current point being activated in the event of detection of emergence of the propagation edge.