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Accurately identifying spatial domains is crucial for downstream analysis and it requires the effective integration of gene expression profiles and spatial information. While increasingly computational methods have been developed for spatial domain detection, most of them cannot adaptively learn the complex relationship between gene expression and spatial information, leading to sub-optimal performance.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel deep learning method named Spatial-MGCN for identifying spatial domains, which is a Multi-view Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) with attention mechanism. We first construct two neighbor graphs using gene expression profiles and spatial information, respectively. Then, a multi-view GCN encoder is designed to extract unique embeddings from both the feature and spatial graphs, as well as their shared embeddings by combining both graphs. Finally, a zero-inflated negative binomial decoder is used to reconstruct the original expression matrix by capturing the global probability distribution of gene expression profiles. Moreover, Spatial-MGCN incorporates a spatial regularization constraint into the features learning to preserve spatial neighbor information in an end-to-end manner. 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