A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FLOW CYTOMETRY DATA

摘要

The present invention relates to a system and process for analysis of flow cytometry data. The flow cytometry data comprises a set of one or more parameter values for each of many cytometry events, and each parameter has a value within a known range. A generator transforms the sets of parameter values into a display matrix comprising element values that represent event densities for each of a number of sub-ranges of each parameter's range. Each element in the matrix has co-ordinates which have a dimension for each parameter. Each element has co-ordinate values determined by the numbers of the respective sub-ranges of the corresponding parameters. In addition the generator includes an accumulator that, for each event, increments the value for each element if and only if the values of all the parameters are in the corresponding sub-ranges. The generator also maintains an up to date count of the highest value accumulated in any of the elements, and uses this to normalise the data for display.