Spatial omic technologies have revolutionized tissue analysis by enabling multimodal molecular coprofiling within their native tissue context. Integrating multislice spatial multiomic data offers unprecedented opportunities to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) tissue landscapes from multimodal molecular perspectives. However, current spatial omic integration methods remain narrowly focused on either vertical (cross-omic) or horizontal (cross-slice) integration, leaving a critical gap for a unified framework that simultaneously addresses both dimensions. Here we present SpatialMOSI, a unified framework for mosaic integration that concurrently resolves cross-modality and cross-section variations. At its core, SpatialMOSI employs a hierarchical graph contrastive learning (HiGCL) strategy that coordinates three integrative objectives: cross-omic alignment and fusion, cross-slice batch correction, and spatial microenvironment preservation. This approach operates on modality-specific latent representations while maintaining feature fidelity through decoding reconstruction. We demonstrate SpatialMOSI's versatility across multiple biological systems, accurately identifying spatially conserved domains, imputing missing omic layers, revealing B cell dynamics in germinal centers, delineating tumor-immune interactions, and reconstructing embryonic developmental trajectories. SpatialMOSI provides a critical computational foundation for constructing integrative 3D molecular atlases from complex multimodal spatial data sets.
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