{
  "id": 16834716,
  "title": "When uncertainty quantification fails: structural vulnerabilities and corrections for selective prediction under clinical class imbalance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/when-uncertainty-quantification-fails-structural-vulnerabilities-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-27T17:08:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37561v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Background. Selective prediction systems improve the safety of clinical artificial intelligence by deferring ambiguous cases to human experts while automating high-confidence decisions. However, this safety mechanism relies entirely on the premise that uncertainty scores accurately reflect clinical ambiguity. In prognostic tasks characterized by severe class imbalance, where the clinical outcome…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}