Deep learning-based enhancing spatial biological context parsing.

Authors

Junlin Xu, Xinjie Liao, Chang Zhou, Shuting Jin, Yajie Meng, Xianfang Tang, Changcheng Lu, Jialiang Yang, Sisi Yuan, Xinyu Yang

Published in

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). Nov 12, 2026. Epub Nov 12, 2026.

Abstract

The rapid advancement of spatial transcriptomics (ST) has established a foundation for the complementary integration of multimodal information from gene expression profiles, spatial localization, and histological images. However, noise and data heterogeneity complicate the characterization of spatial relationships and tissue structure.
In this study, we develop a deep learning framework, CroSP, based on a multi-view graph autoencoder. The framework integrates gene expression profiles, spatial locations, and tissue morphology information into a low-dimensional latent representation. Cross-view contrastive learning and metric learning coordinate the complementary views. Across datasets from multiple platforms and spatial resolutions, CroSP improved spatial domain identification and delineated brain and olfactory bulb structures. Analyses using established downstream methods further characterized spatially variable genes and the spatial heterogeneity, immune microenvironments, and cell-cell communication in human breast cancer tissue. These results support the use of CroSP for spatial biological analysis in healthy and diseased tissues.
Source code and tutorials: https://github.com/Biowust/CroSP.git. Archived code: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22675113. Public raw datasets: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22533825.

PMID:
43016319
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 12 Nov 2026.

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