Dr. Alan McMillan, principal investigator of the Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP), is a key collaborator on a newly funded project that aims to harness artificial intelligence to improve patient care. In partnership with Dr. Courtney Balentine of the UW Division of Endocrine Surgery, Dr. McMillan has been awarded a two-year, $69,000 pilot grant …
The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) is proud to announce that its principal investigator, Dr. Alan B. McMillan, has been named an interim Deputy Editor for the prestigious journal Radiology. This appointment, effective August 1, 2025, recognizes Dr. McMillan’s significant contributions and expertise in the field of medical imaging. Radiology, with a 2024 Impact …
This month, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Radiology website featured our own Dr. Alan B. McMillan in a new article reflecting on his role as co-director for the UW–Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Pilot Awards Program. Having been in the position for his first six …
The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) is proud to extend its warmest congratulations to our valued team member, Dr. Weijie Chen, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 14, 2025. Weijie’s work embodies the core mission of our lab—to advance MRI, PET/MR, and PET/CT techniques to gain new information for better detection and …
This July, the heart of Madison buzzed with the latest breakthroughs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the Magnetic Resonance in Madison meeting. The two-day event, held on July 10th and 11th at the Pyle Center, brought together leading minds in science, engineering, and clinical practice to discuss the future of MRI. For us at …
We are excited to announce that our principal investigator, Dr. Alan B. McMillan, and graduate student James H. Wang have contributed to a new book, “MRI Pulse Sequences: Physics, Methods and Clinical Applications,” published in July 2025. At MITRP, our work is centered on advancing medical imaging technologies like MRI to provide new insights into human …
Scalable Ensembles Put a Confidence Meter on Medical-Image AI MITRP PhD student Weijie Chen and MITRP PI Alan McMillan recently published manuscript Segmentation And Synthesis With Interpretable Scalable Ensembles – Uncertainty Estimation (SASWISE-UE) in Computers in Biology and Medicine on June 2nd, 2025. The problem: great models, opaque confidence Deep-learning tools for image segmentation and synthesis are edging …
Madison, WI – Two PhD students from the Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP), Xue Li and Eric Weber, will be completing industry internships during the summer of 2025. Li will join Google’s New York office as a Software Engineering Intern, and Weber will work at MediaTek in San Diego as an Electrical Engineering Intern. …
(Portland, Oregon) The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) 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 the power of foundation model embeddings for diverse medical imaging applications. Our team was excited to share insights and advancements that promise …
At the Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP), our goal is to pioneer new imaging techniques to better understand and treat human disease. We’re excited to announce a significant step forward in that mission: a new US patent granted to our PI, Alan McMillan, PhD and collaborator Zaid Aljuboori, MD. The patent, US12299806B2: “Method and …