MITRP 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 research, under the guidance of her advisor, MITRP PI Dr. Alan McMillan, focuses on leveraging representation learning and embeddings to address …

MITRP 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 guidance of his co-advisors, MITRP PI Dr. Alan McMillan, and Dr. Ali Pirasteh, focuses on Optimizing MRI Acquisition for Systemic …

MITRP 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 Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in Houston, TX. While PET is a powerful diagnostic tool, its quantitative accuracy depends heavily on correcting …

Alan B. McMillan, PhD, Principal Investigator of the Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP), recently delivered two talks emphasizing the growing impact of foundation models in medical imaging. On April 9, 2025, Dr. McMillan presented at the “Clinical Practice Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence Grand Rounds 2025-2026: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Radiology.” His talk, “Artificial Intelligence …

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. Bernardo Bizzo, Assistant Professor and Senior Director of the Data Science Office at Mass General Brigham (MGB). Shaping the Future …

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 Technology Research Program (MITRP), has been appointed Co-Director of the ICTR Pilot Awards Program. Dr. McMillan will serve alongside Dr. Meghan Brennan and Dr. Chris Sorkness, providing strategic leadership to …

The Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) 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 a team of MITRP collaborators. This study introduces a novel vision transformer model that integrates both image and demographic data …

A new arXiv preprint by collaborator Raj Hansini Khoiwal and Molecular Imaging Technology Research Program (MITRP) PI Alan B. McMillan challenges conventional AI training paradigms by demonstrating that pre-trained image embeddings alone can achieve high-performance medical image classification—without traditional model training. Read the full paper: Embeddings are all you need! Achieving High Performance Medical Image …

We are pleased to announce that MITRP team member Eric Weber successfully passed his preliminary examination on November 26, 2024. This significant milestone marks his advancement to doctoral candidacy. Eric is co-advised by MITRP Principal Investigator Dr. Alan McMillan and by Dr. Nader Behdad. His examination committee also included Dr. Chu Ma and Dr. Kevin …

A new arXiv preprint by Alan B. McMillan, PI of MIMRTL, investigates the performance of large language models (LLMs) in answering technical MRI questions, assessing their potential to provide expert-level guidance in real-world clinical settings. The Challenge: Variability in MRI Expertise Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful but technically complex imaging modality. Operator skill …