Bibliographic record
Abstract
We appreciate Dr. Renshaw's comments with regard to our recently published article.1 When it comes to quality control/assurance issues in cytopathology, there is a natural sense of comfort in keeping the status quo by simply continuing the ingrained practice of 10% full review of negative smears, despite strong evidence of more effective quality control measures such as rapid rescreening or prescreening.2-5 Over the years, enormous and valuable efforts have gone into refining the diagnostic criteria and standardizing the reporting of Papanicolaou smears. None of it matters if a case is simply missed on screening. Efforts must be focused on this issue in view of emerging information and concerns. Unless automated review becomes a practical alternative in terms of reliability, laboratory logistics, and especially costs, rapid prescreening appears to be the best way to proceed forward. Although rapid rescreening (in contrast to rapid prescreening) appears sensible and perhaps less complicated, monitoring its sensitivity, and therefore its effectiveness, remains a concern.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.061 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.029 | 0.037 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.013 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".