University of Wisconsin–Madison

MITRP Undergraduate Student Receives Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowhsip

MITRP undergraduate researcher Jake Yun has been awarded a prestigious 2026-2027 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This competitive award provides Jake with a stipend to support his independent research over the upcoming academic year under the mentorship of MITRP Principal Investigator Dr. Alan McMillan. Jake’s project takes aim at a massive hurdle in modern medical …

MITRP Undergraduates Shine at the 2026 UW-Madison Symposium

On Friday, April 17th, 2026, the 28th annual UW-Madison Undergraduate Symposium was held at Union South and the Discovery Building, showcasing student research from across all disciplines. The symposium serves as a crucial forum for undergraduates to present their scholarly work in a professional setting, allowing campus and community members to engage directly with the …

New Review Paper on Electron Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MITRP graduate students Eric Weber and Ted Nowak have led a newly published review article titled “Electron magnetic resonance imaging: A technical perspective” in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance. The review was co-authored with their advisors, Dr. Nader Behdad from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and MITRP Principal Investigator Dr. Alan B. McMillan. This …

MITRP Presents Three Posters at WisconsINFORMATICS 2026

MITRP Presented Three Posters at WisconsINFORMATICS 2026 On February 3rd, 2026, the Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) participated in the annual WisconsINFORMATICS conference at the Health Science Learning Center (HSLC). Informatics is central to our mission of extracting meaningful data from these modalities, and this year we contributed three posters highlighting how deep learning …

Dr. McMillan Delivers Lectures on MRI Physics and AI at 2026 UW Radiology Summit

MITRP Principal Investigator, Dr. Alan McMillan, participated as invited faculty at the Second Annual University of Wisconsin Radiology Summit. Held from January 19–22, 2026, in Park City, Utah, the summit served as a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together radiologists and physicists to discuss critical updates in diagnostic imaging. Dr. McMillan joined a distinguished roster …

Professor McMillan Serves as a Shark of Department of Surgery Shark Tank Event

On January 29, 2026, MITRP director Dr. Alan B. McMillan applied this research accumen to the Department of Surgery’s Innovation Shark Tank at their 2026 Research Summit. This event provided seed funding to help researchers bridge the gap between early-stage concepts and clinical application. Dr. McMillan served as a “Shark” alongside Anjon Audhya (Senior Associate …

Xue Li Leads Study on Foundation Models for Radiography

The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) is pleased to announce the publication of a new article in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine titled “From Embeddings to Accuracy: Comparing Foundation Models for Radiographic Classification”. This work represents a significant partnership between academia and industry, featuring a comprehensive author list from the University of …

MITRP Graduate Student Ted Nowak Successfully Passes Preliminary Examination

The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) is pleased to announce that Graduate Research Assistant Ted Nowak, MS, successfully passed his preliminary examination on November 3, 2025. This significant academic milestone marks his advancement to candidacy for his PhD. Ted is co-advised by Dr. Nader Behdad (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and MITRP Principal Investigator …

New Paper Comparing Radiomics, Deep Learning, and Dataset Size

The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) is pleased to announce a new publication from one of our undergraduate researchers, Zhijin (Tracy) He. The paper was co-authored with MITRP Principal Investigator Dr. Alan B. McMillan. This research directly supports our group’s mission to advance imaging techniques and technology to gain new structural and functional information …