Patent ID: 7369696

Claim:
A method of classifying cells into subpopulations using cell classifying data, the method comprising: receiving image data; analyzing said image data to identify object areas in the image data; analyzing said image data, on the basis of said identified object areas, to determine, for at least one selected first cell, one or more measurements; deriving a plurality of parameter sets for said at least one selected first cell, wherein the plurality of parameter sets includes at least one of said one or more measurements; classifying a first set of cells by a user selected classification method, the process of classifying the first set of cells including classifying said at least one selected first cell into a subpopulation by optimizing dimensionality of feature space and storing first identifying data indicating the subpopulation into which said at least one selected first cell has been classified; deriving cell classifying data for use in classifying a second set of cells into subpopulations from a first parameter set and a first identifying data, and classifying a second set of cells into subpopulations on the basis of one or more measurements based on at least one of the plurality of parameters sets weighted in relation to the plurality of parameter sets.