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+# Heart segmentation
+Unsupervised segmentation of the heart on CT scans
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+Unofficial Python implementation of the segmentation algorithm presented in the following paper: 
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+Larrey-Ruiz, J., Morales-Sánchez, J., Bastida-Jumilla, M. C., Menchón-Lara, R. M., Verdú-Monedero, R., & Sancho-Gómez, J. L. (2014). Automatic image-based segmentation of the heart from CT scans. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2014(1), 52.