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Record W4410785964 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59227-x

A machine learning and centrifugal microfluidics platform for bedside prediction of sepsis

2025· article· en· W4410785964 on OpenAlexafffund
Lidija Malic, Peter Zhang, Pamela Plant, Liviu Clime, Christina Nassif, Dillon Da Fonte, Evan F. Haney, Byeong‐Ui Moon, Victor Mun-Sing Sit, D. Brassard, Maxence Mounier, Eryn Churcher, Jim Tsoporis, Reza Falsafi, Manjeet Bains, Andrew Baker, Uriel Trahtemberg, Ljuboje Lukic, John C. Marshall, Matthias Geißler, Robert E. W. Hancock, Teodor Veres, Claúdia C. dos Santos

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of British ColumbiaNational Research Council CanadaSt. Michael's HospitalUniversity of VictoriaMcGill UniversityCanada Research Chairs
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCanadian Space AgencyKillam TrustsGroupe canadien de recherche en soins intensifsUniversity of TorontoCanada Research ChairsCIHR Skin Research Training CentrePublic Health Agency of CanadaPublic Health AgencyGovernment of CanadaGénome QuébecCalifornia HIV/AIDS Research Program
KeywordsMicrofluidicsComputer scienceSepsisArtificial intelligenceMachine learningMedicineNanotechnologyInternal medicineMaterials science

Abstract

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Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysfunctional response to infection. Delays in diagnosis have substantial impact on survival. Herein, blood samples from 586 in-house patients with suspected sepsis are used in conjunction with machine learning and cross-validation to define a six-gene expression signature of immune cell reprogramming, termed Sepset, to predict clinical deterioration within the first 24 h (h) of clinical presentation. Prediction accuracy (~90% in early intensive care unit (ICU) and 70% in emergency room patients) is validated in 3178 patients from existing independent cohorts. A RT-PCR-based Sepset detection test shows a 94% sensitivity in 248 patients to predict worsening of the sequential organ failure assessment scores within the first 24 h. A stand-alone centrifugal microfluidic instrument that automates whole-blood Sepset classifier detection is tested, showing a sensitivity of 92%, and specificity of 89% in identifying the risk of clinical deterioration in patients with suspected sepsis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.312 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations10
Published2025
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