ASC/SIL Ratio for Cytotechnologists
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The atypical squamous cell/squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC/SIL) ratio has been used as a surrogate quality control tool for specificity and uncertainty for cytopathologists. Whether this ratio is useful for cytotechnologists is not known. During an 8-month period, the sensitivity of screening for 11 cytotechnologists was determined using rapid prescreening. The ASC/SIL ratio for each cytotechnologist was correlated with the screening accuracy for each. Screening sensitivity varied from 50.5% to 97.7%, and the ASC/SIL ratio varied from 0.87 to 4.49. The mean screening sensitivity for cytotechnologists with ASC/SIL ratios less than 1.5 was significantly less than that of cytotechnologists whose ASC/SIL ratio was more than 3.0 (67% vs 95%; P = .021). In the absence of more accurate quality control data, an ASC/SIL ratio less than 1.5 for a cytotechnologist may be a surrogate marker for inadequate screening sensitivity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".