Analysis Of Brain Functional Connectivity By Frequent Pattern Mining In Graphs. Application To The Characterization Of Murine Models

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is an imaging technique that allows to explore brain function in vivo. Many methods dedicated to analyzing these data are based on graph modeling, each node corresponding to a brain region and the edges representing their functional link. The objective of this work is to investigate the interest of methods for extracting frequent pattern in graphs to compare these data between two populations. Results are presented in the context of the characterization of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease in comparison with a group of control mice.