The invention relates to the field of
bioinformatics and spatial multi-
omics analysis, and discloses a spatial multi-
omics data clustering method combining a
mask mechanism and cross-
modal fusion. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, constructing and optimizing a spatial
adjacency matrix and a feature
similarity matrix, and executing spot-level
mask operation after preprocessing multiple
omics data; then, respectively extracting potential expressions of spatial neighborhood information and high-dimensional features of each group of mechanical modals by adopting an
encoder with shared architecture and specific parameter modals, and generating a unified cross-
modal fusion expression through weighted fusion; and finally, combining the comparison loss, the reconstruction loss, the clustering hierarchy comparison loss and the KL
divergence to construct a total
loss function, and performing joint optimization to realize cross-
modal information fusion and consistent clustering between modals. Experiments show that the clustering accuracy, the
noise robustness and the cross-modal integration quality of the method are remarkably superior to those of an existing method in
simulation and real data sets, and powerful
technical support is provided for analyzing the tissue microenvironment and the
cell heterogeneity.