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INST-Align: Implicit Neural Alignment for Spatial Transcriptomics via Canonical Expression Fields
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.12084v1 Announce Type: new Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures mRNA expression while preserving spatial organization, but multi-slice analysis faces two coupled difficulties: large non-rigid deformations across slices and inter-slice batch effects when alignment and integration are treated independently. We present INST-Align, an unsupervised pairwise framework that couples a coordinate-based deformation network with a shared Canonical Expression Field, an implicit neural representation mapping spatial coordinates to expression embeddings, for joint alignment and reconstruction.