Patent ID: 6963822

Claim:
An examination data processing apparatus for analyzing a blood specimen containing a plurality of lipoproteins and computationally determining a lipid phenotype, the apparatus comprising: means for integrating a plurality of optical density waveforms to calculate an integrated value for each optical density waveform, the optical density waveforms being formed by conducting electrophoresis on the blood specimen to obtain an electrophoretogram for each of a plurality of different lipoprotein components and optically scanning the electrophoretograms to obtain the optical density waveforms; means for normalizing each optical density waveform using a corresponding integrated value to produce a plurality of normalized optical density waveforms; means for storing the plurality of normalized optical density waveforms; means for calculating totals of the different lipoprotein components for at least some of the plurality of lipoproteins using the normalized optical density waveforms; means for comparing the totals to corresponding reference values; and means for determining a lipid phenotype based on the comparison of the totals to the corresponding reference values.