Madison, WI – Two PhD students from the Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Lab (MIMRTL), Xue Li and Eric Weber, will be completing industry internships during the summer of 2025. Li will join Google’s New York office …
MIMRTL @ SIIM25
(Portland, Oregon) The Molecular Imaging / Magnetic Resonance Technology Lab (MIMRTL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made significant contributions to the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2025 conference, showcasing cutting-edge research that leveraged …
Xue Li Successfully Completes Preliminary Examination
The MIMRTL lab is pleased to announce that Xue Li successfully completed her preliminary examination on April 29, 2025. This achievement marks a significant step forward in her doctoral studies, advancing her to Ph.D. candidacy.Xue’s …
James Wang Passes Preliminary Examination
MIMRTL is pleased to announce that James Wang successfully completed his preliminary examination on April 21, 2025. The examination marks a significant milestone in his Ph.D. journey, advancing him to candidacy. James’s research, under the …
Weijie Chen Presents AI-Powered Synthetic CT Generation at ISBI 2025
MIMRTL PhD candidate Weijie Chen recently presented his research on applying deep learning for improved attenuation correction in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. His presentation took place at the 2025 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on …
Dr. McMillan Presents on Foundation Models in AI for Medical Imaging
Alan B. McMillan, PhD, Principal Investigator of the Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Lab (MIMRTL), recently delivered two talks emphasizing the growing impact of foundation models in medical imaging. On April 9, 2025, Dr. McMillan presented …
Professor McMillan Named Co-Chair of the Healthcare AI Challenge
We are excited to share that Professor Alan McMillan, Professor of Clinical Health Sciences and Director of the Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Laboratory (MIMRTL), has been named Co-Chair of the Healthcare AI Challenge alongside Dr. …
Professor McMillan Named Co-Director of ICTR Pilot Awards Program
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alan McMillan, Professor of Clinical Health Sciences in the Department of Radiology and Director of the Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Laboratory (MIMRTL), has been appointed Co-Director of the …
New Paper, BAE-ViT: A Vision Transformer for Efficient and Accurate Bone Age Estimation
The Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Laboratory (MIMRTL) is excited to share a new publication in the journal Tomography, BAE-ViT: An Efficient Multimodal Vision Transformer for Bone Age Estimation, led by Jinnian Zhang, Weijie Chen, and …
New Study Alert: Embedding-Based AI for Medical Image Classification, A More Efficient Future?
A new arXiv preprint by collaborator Raj Hansini Khoiwal and Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Laboratory (MIMRTL) PI Alan B. McMillan challenges conventional AI training paradigms by demonstrating that pre-trained image embeddings alone can achieve high-performance …