The present invention relates to a method of segmenting a starting image
or sequence of tridimensional images for obtaining a tridimensional
segmentation image comprising a partition into regions of interest, said
image or sequence of images comprising measurements, for each voxel and
in the course of n time intervals (n.gtoreq.1), of the real evolution of
a signal representative of at least one variable of said image or
sequence, which comprises essentially: a) a modeling (10) of the signal
comprising the definition of a parametric model of spatio-temporal
evolution of said signal, this model comprising sets of homogeneous
parameters respectively specific to structures corresponding to said
regions of interest; b) an extraction (30) of samples of voxels
respectively included in said structures; then c) a merging (50b) of the
samples grouping together those whose evolution model is specific to the
same structure, said merging following, preceding or including a
classification of all the voxels of said image or sequence of images or
of a zone of interest of the latter by aggregation with a group of
samples.