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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

Structural-information guided fusion for spatial domain identification from spatial transcriptomics.

Min Zhang, Peng Gao, Cheng Chen, Xiaoke Ma, Xin Chen, Shaoqing Feng

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Min ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China.
Peng GaoShenzhen Loop Area Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China.
Cheng ChenMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, BNRIST Bioinformatics Division, Institute for Precision Medicine & Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6739-1937
Xiaoke MaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5604-7137
Xin ChenDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of South China University of Technology (Guangzhou First People's Hospital), Guangzhou 510180, China.
Shaoqing FengDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200011, China.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China U22A20345National Science and Technology Major Project of China 2024ZD0531100
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Abstract

motivationAccurate spatial domain identification is essential for understanding tissue organization and pathological mechanisms in spatial transcriptomics. However, existing methods mainly rely on expression profiles and spatial coordinates. Intercellular interactions are often overlooked. At the same time, preserving both local neighborhood continuity and global topological structure remains difficult.

resultsWe propose SGFST (Structural-information Guided Fusion for spatial domain identification from Spatial Transcriptomics), a novel framework for spatial domain identification in spatial transcriptomics. SGFST integrates a spatial graph and a signal graph, and employs a dual-branch graph convolutional network with attention-based fusion to capture complementary spatial and functional information. In addition, SGFST jointly optimizes a Bayesian personalized ranking loss, a zero-inflated negative binomial loss, and a distance structural information constraint to preserve local neighborhood continuity, reconstruct expression signals, and maintain global topological consistency. Experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate that SGFST outperforms several state-of-the-art methods in spatial domain identification. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The code of SGFST is available at Github (https://github.com/xkmaxidian/SGFST) and Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20624899).

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Computational BiologySpatial TranscriptomicsAlgorithmsBayes TheoremGraph Neural NetworksHumansSoftware

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