SMOPCA: spatially aware dimension reduction integrating multi-omics improves the efficiency of spatial domain detection

Abstract

Technological advances have enabled us to profile multiple omics layers with spatial information, significantly enhancing spatial domain detection and advancing a variety of biomedical research fields. Despite these advancements, there is a notable lack of effective methods for modeling spatial multi-omics data. We introduce SMOPCA, a Spatial Multi-Omics Principal Component Analysis method designed to perform joint dimension reduction on multimodal data while preserving spatial dependencies. Extensive experiments reveal that SMOPCA outperforms existing single-modal and multimodal dimension reduction and clustering methods, across both single-cell and spatial multi-omics datasets derived from diverse technologies and tissue structures.