diff --git a/Modules/Multilabel/files.cmake b/Modules/Multilabel/files.cmake
index 6f267f401b..07cefdaac9 100644
--- a/Modules/Multilabel/files.cmake
+++ b/Modules/Multilabel/files.cmake
@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
 set(CPP_FILES
   mitkLabel.cpp
   mitkLabelSet.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImage.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageConverter.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageSource.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageHelper.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageSurfaceStampFilter.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageToSurfaceFilter.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageToSurfaceThreadedFilter.cpp
   mitkLabelSetImageVtkMapper2D.cpp
   mitkMultilabelObjectFactory.cpp
   mitkLabelSetIOHelper.cpp
   mitkDICOMSegmentationPropertyHelper.cpp
   mitkDICOMSegmentationConstants.cpp
+  mitkSegmentationTask.cpp
 )
 
 set(RESOURCE_FILES
 
 )
diff --git a/Modules/Multilabel/mitkSegmentationTask.cpp b/Modules/Multilabel/mitkSegmentationTask.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a374ac46c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/Multilabel/mitkSegmentationTask.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*============================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
+All rights reserved.
+
+Use of this source code is governed by a 3-clause BSD license that can be
+found in the LICENSE file.
+
+============================================================================*/
+
+#include "mitkSegmentationTask.h"
+#include <mitkProperties.h>
+
+mitk::SegmentationTask::SegmentationTask()
+{
+  // A base data cannot be serialized if empty. To be not considered empty its
+  // geometry must consist of at least one time step. However, a segmentation
+  // task would then appear as invisible spacial object in a scene. This can
+  // be prevented by excluding it from the scene's bounding box calculations.
+  this->GetTimeGeometry()->Expand(1);
+  this->SetProperty("includeInBoundingBox", BoolProperty::New(false));
+}
+
+mitk::SegmentationTask::SegmentationTask(const Self& other)
+  : BaseData(other)
+{
+}
+
+mitk::SegmentationTask::~SegmentationTask()
+{
+}
+
+void mitk::SegmentationTask::SetRequestedRegionToLargestPossibleRegion()
+{
+}
+
+bool mitk::SegmentationTask::RequestedRegionIsOutsideOfTheBufferedRegion()
+{
+  return false;
+}
+
+bool mitk::SegmentationTask::VerifyRequestedRegion()
+{
+  return true;
+}
+
+void mitk::SegmentationTask::SetRequestedRegion(const itk::DataObject*)
+{
+}
diff --git a/Modules/Multilabel/mitkSegmentationTask.h b/Modules/Multilabel/mitkSegmentationTask.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f2c8d08c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/Multilabel/mitkSegmentationTask.h
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*============================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
+All rights reserved.
+
+Use of this source code is governed by a 3-clause BSD license that can be
+found in the LICENSE file.
+
+============================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef mitkSegmentationTask_h
+#define mitkSegmentationTask_h
+
+#include <mitkBaseData.h>
+#include <MitkMultilabelExports.h>
+
+namespace mitk
+{
+  class MITKMULTILABEL_EXPORT SegmentationTask : public BaseData
+  {
+  public:
+    mitkClassMacro(SegmentationTask, BaseData)
+    itkFactorylessNewMacro(Self)
+    itkCloneMacro(Self)
+
+    void SetRequestedRegionToLargestPossibleRegion() override;
+    bool RequestedRegionIsOutsideOfTheBufferedRegion() override;
+    bool VerifyRequestedRegion() override;
+    void SetRequestedRegion(const itk::DataObject*) override;
+
+  protected:
+    mitkCloneMacro(Self)
+
+    SegmentationTask();
+    SegmentationTask(const Self& other);
+    ~SegmentationTask() override;
+  };
+}
+
+#endif