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The present study proposes a method of extracting possibly discriminative blood perfusion properties in pigmented skin lesions by combining information on the lesions' blood perfusion with optical or visual information of their spatial extent.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods: <\/jats:bold> A total of 46 blood perfusion measurements were performed on 22 pigmented skin lesions, the ultimate diagnosis of which was three histologically proven malignant melanomas, four histologically proven benign naevi and fifteen naevi assessed by two specialist dermatologists as being benign. Laser Doppler perfusion imaging gave two different types of two\u2010dimensional data sets (64\u00d764 pixels), one representing the total backscattered light intensity at each measurement point (TLI image) and the second corresponding to perfusion values. 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