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Machine learning-assisted diagnosis classification of primary immune dysregulation using IDDA2.1 phenotype profiling

ContributorsSchwitzkowski, Malte; Veeranki, Sai Pavan Kumar; Seidel, Benedikt N; Kindle, Gerhard; Rusch, Stephan; Kramer, Diether; Seidel, Markus G; European Society for Immunodeficiencies Registry Working Party
Published inThe journal of allergy and clinical immunology, vol. 157, no. 2, p. 470-485
Publication date2026-02
First online date2025-11-05
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.

Keywords
  • Inborn error of immunity (IEI)
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Immune deficiency and dysregulation activity (IDDA) score
  • 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)
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Phenotype
  • Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases / diagnosis
  • Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases / classification
  • Male
  • Female
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SCHWITZKOWSKI, Malte et al. Machine learning-assisted diagnosis classification of primary immune dysregulation using IDDA2.1 phenotype profiling. In: The journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2026, vol. 157, n° 2, p. 470–485. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2025.10.022
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