Abstract:Traditionally, the flow cytometry data is analyzed manually, which is inefficient and depends on expert experiences. In recent years, a lot of automatic cluster algorithms have been proposed. However, the clustering performance is not satisfied for sparse data with a random distribution. Therefore, this paper presents an automatic clustering method based on densitydistance center for tmixture model algorithm in flow cytometry data, which is suitable for rare samples. The proposed method finds the center of each group by densitydistance center algorithm and uses it as the initial value of tmixture model to estimate the sample data by maximum likelihood estimation. Compared with the classical algorithm, the result shows that the tmixture model based on densitydistance center has better stability and reliability, and can better fit small or mixed samples.