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The modified model incorporated focal loss with label smoothing, dropout regularisation, adaptive class weighting, and weighted sampling to address pronounced class imbalance. Images were pre\u2010processed by extracting regions of interest at a defined digital zoom level and normalised to 896\u2009\u00d7\u2009896 pixels. The reference standard was surgical margin status on conventional histopathology assessed by an expert histopathologist. Diagnostic performance was assessed using sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, area under the receiver\u2010operating\u2010characteristic curve (AUC), and calibration via Brier scores. External validation was conducted using an independent dataset from the LaserSAFE feasibility trial. Model explainability was evaluated using Gradient\u2010weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad\u2010CAM) and a custom graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to support real\u2010time deployment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 275 images (37 tumour and 238 benign from 24 patients) were included for model development and internal testing. On the internal test set (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200957), the model achieved a sensitivity of 87.5%, specificity of 97.9%, and an AUC of 0.93, with good calibration (Brier score 0.16). External validation using 46 independent images yielded a sensitivity of 91.3%, specificity of 73.9%, and an AUC of 0.83, with acceptable calibration (Brier score 0.20). 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