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How will you prove it works?

Validation is a comparison against a defined reference, across the cases that matter—including difficult and no-finding cases.

Build a known-correct set with ordinary, hard, borderline, and no-finding examples. Measure agreement by class, not only one overall accuracy number. Record disagreement in the reference itself; expert agreement is a ceiling on reproducibility.

Seed known difficult cases and examine whether the system fails safely. A clean random sample is not enough when errors can be correlated by shift, supplier, revision, or defect family.