University of Wisconsin–Madison

MIMRTL Team Members Present at CMIMI 2022!

MIMRTL team members presented at the 2022 Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CMIMI) from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). Presentations included: (poster) – Torres-Velázquez M, Joshi T, McMillan A. (2022). Radiomics for Intractable vs not Intractable Epilepsy Classification using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data. (oral presentation) – Zhang J, Joshi T, …

MIMRTL team members and collaborators present at SNMMI 2022!

Congratulations to our MIMRTL team members and collaborators who presented their research at the 2022 Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in Vancouver, British Columbia from June 11th-14th. There are many great contributions using novel radiotracers and novel technical developments! Oral Presentations Staging Liver Fibrosis by Fibroblast Activation Protein Inhibitor Positron Emission Tomography …

Congrats Maribel Torres-Velázquez, PhD!

MIMRTL team member Maribel Torres-Velázquez succesfully defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Biomedical Engineering entitled “Deep Learning and Radiomics Applied to Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain and Muscles to Better Detect Disease.” In her thesis, Maribel conducted interesting and state of the art analyses using a combination of machine learning and deep …

Congrats to our Undergraduate Research Scholars

This past academic year three undergraduate students participated in the undergraduate research scholars (URS) program with MIMRTL. Here are more details about their projects: Analysis of Probabilistic Classifiers for Disease Detection in Medical Imaging Camilla Appiani Project Description: The medical field is constantly growing with regards to new applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. …

Dr. McMillan presents at the 2022 Statistics in Medical Imaging Conference

Dr. McMillan presented at the 2022 Statistics in Medical Imaging (SMI) Conference that occurred May 25-27th at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  This meeting is the official meeting of the Statistics in Imaging Section of the American Statistical Association and focuses on statistical work in imaging sciences. Dr. McMillan gave a talk entitled “Robustness (or not) …

Congrats 2022 Graduates!

A hearty congratulations to our MIMRTL team members who graduated in May 2022!   Graduating team members include: Matthew Parker, BS, Computer Science Helena Van Hemmen, BS, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics Zeming Xie, MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering Maribel Torres-Velázquez, PhD, Biomedical Engineering

Dr. McMillan presents at the 2022 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Conference

Dr. McMillan presented at the 2022 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Conference in London, UK on May 7th, 2022. The ISMRM meeting brings together experts all across the world to present new research and provide educational opportunities for scientists and clinicians working in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) field. Dr. McMillan presented …

New paper published on motion robust PET brain imaging

MIMRTL members Dr. Matthew Spangler-Bickell (alum), Dr. Samuel Hurley, and Dr. Alan McMillan recently published a new paper in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine for motion-robust PET brain image reconstruction. This approach leverages a fully data-driven approach using a ultra-short PET frames (approximately 1 second long) to estimate head motion during a PET scan. This …

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 …