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However, traditional fetal heart rate monitoring data has the problem of strong subjectivity in manual interpretation, and deep learning models have poor representation ability on tabular data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study proposed PLE-TabM, a tabular deep learning model combined piecewise linear encoding (PLE) and efficient weight integration. We used the public CTG dataset as the research subject. 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