1. A method for measurement and analysis of patient anatomy with an ultrasound imaging system which generates an ultrasound image of a region of a patient and provides coordinates of walls of a vessel in the image, said ultrasound imaging system executing the steps of: a) in response to placement of a cursor within the vessel in the ultrasound image, automatically determining from the wall coordinates values of one or more parameters of the vessel in the vicinity of the cursor; b) recording the determined parameter values; and c) automatically moving the cursor to a plurality of positions along the vessel and repeating steps a) and b) at each of said plurality of positions, thereby automatically tracking the vessel.