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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Cycle-consistent deep generative modeling unifies cellular states across unpaired spatial and single-cell modalities.

Haoran Zhang, Jeffrey F Quinn, Data Science TeamLab, Wesley Tansey

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Haoran ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin.
Jeffrey F QuinnComputational Oncology, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Data Science TeamLab
Wesley TanseyComputational Oncology, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
The Center for Tumor-Immune Systems Biology at MSKCCU54CA274492 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI Alexander Y Rudensky · 2022 to 2026
$16.3M
Probabilistic Multiscale Modeling of the Tumor MicroenvironmentR37CA271186 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI Wesley Tansey · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS R37 CA271186NCI NIH HHS U54 CA274492
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Abstract

Current spatial and single-cell technologies capture complementary but incomplete views of cellular state, with transcriptomic, proteomic, and spatial information distributed across distinct platforms. Integration is challenged by unpaired measurements, mismatched feature spaces, and modality-specific biases. We present MultiTME, a multimodal framework that integrates heterogeneous spatial and single-cell data using a spatially-regularized, cycle-consistent deep generative model. By enforcing consistency of bidirectional mappings, MultiTME learns a shared latent representation that enables translation between modalities without requiring paired observations or shared features. Across benchmarks, MultiTME outperforms existing methods, produces accurate cross-modal cell typing, improves spatial transcriptomic panel completion, and transfers whole-transcriptome information to generate spatially resolved maps at cellular resolution. Applied to a multimodal colorectal cancer dataset, we demonstrate that MultiTME integration reveals a spatially coherent proliferative-invasive tumor axis not directly observable within single modalities. Across five multimodal spatial datasets, we show MultiTME can correct for platform-specific biases between Xenium and CosMx, thereby facilitating cross-dataset harmonization and enabling pan-cancer spatial studies. Code for MultiTME is available at https://github.com/tansey-lab/multitme.

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