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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

Cross-Modal Denoising and Integration of Spatial Multi-Omics Data with CANDIES.

Ye Liu, Wanpeng Zou, Yuekai Li, Jiayi Wang, Mingxuan Cai, Hongmin Cai

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Ye LiuSchool of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Wanpeng ZouSchool of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Yuekai LiDepartment of Biostatistics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jiayi WangSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Mingxuan CaiDepartment of Biostatistics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4011-8292
Hongmin CaiSchool of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Funding

City University of Hong Kong 21300423City University of Hong Kong 7020141Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 2025ZYGXZR054Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2026A1515010402Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2026A1515010725Hong Kong Research Grant Council 21305525National Key Research and Development Program of China 2025YFE0216700National Natural Science Foundation of China 12501402National Natural Science Foundation of China 62306118National Natural Science Foundation of China 62325204National Natural Science Foundation of China U21A20520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial multi-omics data offer a powerful framework for integrating diverse molecular profiles while maintaining the spatial organization of cells. However, inherent variations in data quality and noise levels across different modalities pose significant challenges to accurate integration and analyses. In this paper, we introduce CANDIES, which leverages a conditional diffusion model and contrastive learning to effectively denoise and integrate spatial multi-omics data. With our innovative model and algorithm designs, CANDIES not only enhances the quality of spatial multi-omics data, but also yields a unified and comprehensive joint representation, thereby empowering many downstream analyses. We conduct extensive evaluations on diverse synthetic and real datasets, including MISAR-seq data from the mouse brain, spatial CITE-seq data from human skin biopsy tissue, spatial Mux-seq, and spatial ATAC-RNA-seq data from the mouse embryo, and 10

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MultiomicsAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansMiceSpatial Transcriptomicscomplex traitsdiffusion modelmulti‐omics integrationspatial transcriptomics

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