The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of multiple-view mammograms in the computerized scheme for identifying
histological classifications. Our database consisted of mediolateral oblique (MLO) and craniocaudal (CC) magnification mammograms
obtained from 77 patients, which included 14 invasive carcinomas, 17 noninvasive carcinomas of comedo type, 17 noninvasive
carcinomas of noncomedo type, 14 mastopathies, and 15 fibroadenomas. Five features on clustered microcalcifications were determined
from each of MLO and CC images by taking into account image features that experienced radiologists commonly use to identify
histological classifications. Modified Bayes discriminant function (MBDF) was employed for distinguishing between histological
classifications. For the input of MBDF, we used five or ten features obtained from MLO and/or CC images. With ten features,
the classification accuracies for each histological classification ranged from 70.6% to 93.3%. This result was higher than
that obtained with only five features either from MLO or CC images.