Automated Detection and Segmentation of Vascular Structures of Skin Lesions Seen in Dermoscopy, With an Application to Basal Cell Carcinoma Classification.

Blood vessels are important biomarkers in skin lesions both diagnostically and clinically. Detection and quantification of cutaneous blood vessels provide critical information toward lesion diagnosis and assessment. In this paper, a novel framework for detection and segmentation of cutaneous vasculature from dermoscopy images is presented and the further extracted vascular features are explored fo...