Adaptive segmentation of lesions in medical images

A computer program product for lesion feature extraction, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one hardware processor to:

• receive a digital medical image and a binary image mask, wherein the binary image mask depicts a segmentation of a lesion in the digital medical image;
• compute a plurality of layers of the lesion;
• for each of the plurality of layers of the lesion, extract layer features;
• and
• send the extracted layer features to a lesion classifier.

A system for lesion feature extraction, comprising:

• at least one hardware processor;
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by the at least one hardware processor to:
• i) receive a digital medical image and a binary image mask, wherein the binary image mask depicts a segmentation of a lesion in the digital medical image;
• ii) compute a plurality of layers of the lesion;
• iii) for each of the plurality of layers of the lesion, extract layer features;
• and
• iv) send the extracted layer features to a lesion classifier.