1. A method for automatically segmenting image data of an object, the method comprising: selecting a seed; creating an initial surface around the seed; preprocessing the image data; running a deformable surface algorithm on the image data; and post processing the image data, wherein the selecting the seed comprises at least one of: selecting one seed point within the object; selecting two seed points within the object, one seed point being selected at an upper end of the object and the other seed point being selected at a lower end of the object if the object is a first organ; and selecting a curved segment within the object if the object is a second organ.