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However, existing computational approaches still face key limitations, particularly the insufficient exploitation of histology information and the lack of cross-modal meaningful contrastive strategies for biological analyses. To overcome these challenges, we propose GCAST, a graph contrastive autoencoder framework for spatial transcriptomics that seamlessly integrates multimodal SRT data. GCAST adopts a self-supervised strategy to derive biologically meaningful representations directly from histology images when available. GCAST constructs dual graph views based on data augmentation and introduces a novel contrastive learning designed to leverage histology-weighted and gene-weighted features and improve biological interpretability. In addition, GCAST employs a block-diagonal graph construction to automatically align multiple datasets, achieving batch-effect correction without manual intervention. 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