Machine learning–assisted diagnosis classification of primary immune dysregulation using IDDA2.1 phenotype profiling
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Contributors
- Department of Paediatrics
- Institute of Clinical Genetics
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Department of Paediatrics, Division of Neuropediatrics
- Medical University of Graz
- IT Management Team
- Technical University of Munich
- University Medical Center Freiburg
Abstract
Background: Immune dysregulation, including autoimmunity, autoinflammation, allergy, and malignancy predisposition, adds significant disease burden in primary immune disorders (PID) and inborn errors of immunity (IEIs). Objective: We evaluated whether the 5-graded immune deficiency and dysregulation activity (IDDA2.1) score, encompassing 21 organ involvement and disease burden parameters, supports diagnosis across a wide spectrum of IEIs. Methods: From April 2022 to November 2024, collaborators from 84 centers collected 1,043 IDDA score datasets from 825 patients across 89 IEIs (17 disorders with ≥10 patients each; range, 1-196 per IEI), including 177 scores from 141 treated patients. Supervised machine learning models (k-nearest neighbors, support vector machine, logistic regression, random forest) classified patients into disease groups and ranked corresponding predictive features, while unsupervised uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) visualized disease-specific clustering. Results: Feature analysis reflected clinicians’ recognition of IEI patterns and confirmed internal IDDA score consistency. Phenotype profiles in treated patients remained informative, inversely reflecting anticipated treatment-dependent phenotype amelioration. UMAP effectively distinguished IEIs by IDDA2.1 profiles. Genetic disorder prediction achieved 73% overall accuracy, 70% for the correct monogenic IEI, and 93% within the top 3 predictions; classification reached 43% for IEI–International Union of Immunological Society categories and 59% for 12 “cardinal” IEIs (25 genes). Conclusions: Random forest feature importance analysis can inform targeted clinical screening for key disease manifestations. The top 3 prediction approach demonstrates diagnostic potential, but improved accuracy will require larger, globally shared datasets. Small sample sizes for rare diseases highlight the necessity of broader collaboration to enhance AI-assisted clinical decision-making in the future.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of allergy and clinical immunology |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 5 Nov 2025 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| PubMed | 41202990 |
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| ORCID | /0009-0003-6519-0482/work/203813552 |
| ORCID | /0000-0001-6313-4434/work/203814406 |
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- artificial intelligence (AI), immune deficiency and dysregulation activity (IDDA) score, Inborn error of immunity (IEI), interoperable patient data, phenotype-driven disease classification, primary immune disorder (PID), primary immune regulatory disorder (PIRD), primary immunodeficiency (PID), unsupervised and supervised machine learning (ML)