University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2021

Spotlight: Meet our Scientist, Sam Hurley!

Samuel Hurley, Ph.D. (he/him) Hometown: Waukesha, WI, USA Lab Position: Scientist What is your current research area? My background is quantitative neuroimaging, so sequences to map parameters like T1, T2, etc. as well as more advanced techniques to model the microstructure of the brain. A lot of that work focuses on ways to make the …

Maribel Torres-Velázquez selected as a 2021 MIT EECS Rising Star!

Congrats to MIMRTL team member, and biomedical engineering PhD candidate, Maribel Torres-Velázquez for being selected as one of the 2021 MIT EECS Rising Stars! MIT EECS Rising Stars is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in pursuing academic careers and are top candidates in the fields of electrical …

New paper published on synthetic CT generation

Xue Li and Dr. Alan B. McMillan just published a new article in the Practical Radiation Oncology  journal entitled ‘Synthetic CT Generation from 0.35T MR Images for MR-only Radiation Therapy Planning Using Perceptual Loss Models’. This study aimed to synthesize CT images from 0.35T MR-Linac images, and treatment plans in the liver region,  for MR-only …

New paper published on robustness of UNets for medical image segmentation

MIMRTL team members just published a new article in the Journal of Digital Imaging entitled ‘Robustifying Deep Networks for Medical Image Segmentation’. This study investigated the robustness of UNets for brain tumor segmentation, in subjects with low- and high-grade gliomas, with respect to nearly unnoticeable adversarial perturbations, and suggest new methods to make these networks …

Congratulations to our recent graduate, Hamsalekha Premkumar!

  Hamsalekha Premkumar (she/her) M.S. in Electrical Engineering Hometown: Bangalore, India Twitter: @HamsalekhaPrem1 LinkedIn: @hamsalekha-p     Hamsalekha graduated with a MS in electrical engineering. Her research focused on radiomics-based machine learning analysis to distinguish between different types of musculoskeletal lesions and characterize the effect of inmmunotherapy on MRI data of patients with brain metastases. …

New NFL $4 Million Grant Awarded to Study Hamstring Injuries!

Dr. McMillan and Dr. Hurley are co-investigators in a recently NFL founded groundbreaking international research on hamstring injuries. The objective of this study is to use multimodal MRI imaging to better characterize hamstring injuries in athletes, improve recovery time, and come up with preventive measurements (read Channel 3000’s news article here).

MIMRTL Welcomes our New Summer Students!

Jacob Fuchs (he/him) Email: jtfuchs@wisc.edu Twitter: @JacobFuchs17 LinkedIn: Jacob Fuchs Hometown: Ellsworth, WI Lab Position: Medical Student Academic Program: Doctor of Medicine (MD) Student, UWSMPH Research Topic: Organ segmentation of PET/CT scans by deep learning program to identify incidental findings. I am segmenting various organs (liver, aorta, T12-L5 vertebrae) in PET/CT scans to feed into …

Congratulations, 2021 Graduates!

Congratulations to recent graduates and MIMRTL lab members! Check out their post-graduation plans: Charles Hower Charles Hower graduated with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a Certificate in Computer Science. He is currently applying to medical school, and will be spending the next year working for the Wisconsin Health Corps. Eric Li Eric Li graduated …