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[Submitted on 15 Jul 2026] Title:Selective Prediction and Uncertainty-Aware Referral for Pap Smear Classification View a PDF of the paper titled Selective Prediction and Uncertainty-Aware Referral for Pap Smear Classification, by Nisreen Albzour and 1 other authors View PDF Abstract:Deep learning models for cervical cytology are almost always evaluated as if every prediction must be acted upon, yet a screening system deployed alongside a cytopathologist need not classify every slide: it can defer the cases it is least certain about. Evaluating such a system requires asking not only how often it is correct, but whether its confidence ranks its errors to the bottom. This paper studies selective prediction and uncertainty-aware referral on the Herlev Pap smear dataset under a binary Normal-versus-Abnormal formulation. Two lightweight transformer backbones (Swin-Tiny, TinyViT-5M) are fine-tuned on Herlev from ImageNet-pretrained weights with weighted random sampling, calibrated by post-hoc temperature scaling fit on a held-out calibration subset, and compared against a soft-voting ensemble of both models. Discrimination is reported alongside expected calibration error (ECE) and, as the primary endpoint, the area under the risk-coverage curve (AURC). No statistically significant difference was detected between the two configurations in accuracy or macro-F1, yet the ensemble halves AURC (0.0022 vs. 0.0045, a 51.8% reduction, lower in all five folds) and extends the coverage at which zero errors are made from 18.3% to 72.8% of the pooled test predictions. The same ensemble is nonetheless worse calibrated in absolute terms (ECE 0.0339 vs. 0.0247) and produces more false negatives (14 vs. 10). These results separate two properties that are frequently conflated: the ability to rank predictions by trustworthiness, and the accuracy of the confidence values themselves. Ensembling improves the former while degrading the latter, and the former directly governs the observed risk-coverage tradeoff, whereas the latter governs the interpretation of the reported confidence values. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2609.17545 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2609.17545v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.17545 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Nisreen Albzour [view email] [v1] Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:47:31 UTC (713 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Selective Prediction and Uncertainty-Aware Referral for Pap Smear Classification, by Nisreen Albzour and 1 other authors View PDF view license Current browse context: cs.CV new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)