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However, raw ST data are heavily affected by technical noise, sparsity, and dropout events, which obscure true biological signals and hinder downstream analyses. While recent denoising methods incorporate spatial neighborhood information, they lack explicit supervision due to missing cell-type annotations in ST data. To address this challenge, we introduce SPIDER, a semi-supervised framework that leverages independently generated, annotated single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) references to guide ST denoising. SPIDER synthesizes pseudo-ST data from scRNA-seq to inject cell-type information without requiring paired measurements. The method constructs three graphs capturing spatial proximity, transcriptional similarity in real-ST data, and transcriptional structure in pseudo-ST data. Graph encoders map these representations into a shared latent space, and a domain-alignment module transfers biologically meaningful structure from pseudo-ST to real-ST embeddings. A graph-attention decoder with a zero-inflated negative binomial objective reconstructs denoised ST expression profiles.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We benchmark SPIDER on human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and breast cancer datasets. SPIDER consistently enhances spatial gene expression patterns, recovers known tissue structures, and achieves superior clustering performance compared to existing approaches. Marker gene analyses demonstrate improved spatial continuity and clearer anatomical organization. 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