Dr. McMillan writes editorial for the journal Radiology on continuous learning in artificial intelligence for medical imaging
Dr. McMillan from MIMRTL recently wrote an editorial for the journal Radiology, entitled “Making Your AI Smarter: Continuous Learning Artificial Intelligence for Radiology.” Continuous learning is strategy that allows models to evolve and improve over …
August 28, 2020Dr. McMillan Receives NSF Grant
Dr. McMillan is co-PI on a new NSF award, from the division Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, with Professor Nader Behdad, PhD (PI, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering). The title of the award is …
August 21, 2020New NIH R01 for Robust Deep Learning in Medical Imaging!
Dr. McMillan, along with Associate Professor Po-Ling Loh, PhD (Statistics) and Assistant Professor Varun Jog, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were awarded an R01 from the National Library of Medicine. The title of the project …
August 3, 2020Congrats Alex Kaeck, MS!
Congratulations to MIMRTL graduate student Alex Kaeck for successfully defending his Masters’ thesis in Medical Physics. Alex’s thesis is entitled “Quantitative Whole-Body Dynamic PET Imaging and Applications.” After graduation, Alex is beginning a medical physics …
July 23, 2020Dr. McMillan receives University of Wisconsin Research Core Revitalization Program Award
Dr. McMillan with co-PI Sean Fain (Professor, Medical Physics) received a University of Wisconsin Research Core Revitalization Project. This important investment from the University of Wisconsin will help fund an upgrade to the 4.7T small …
July 8, 2020Congrats, Grads!
Congrats to our undergraduate MIMRTL researchers who graduated recently. This includes: Grace Herbeck (Dec 2019), Murad Jaber (May 2020), Nick Mathew (May 2020), Tyler Walters (May 2020).
May 21, 2020Dr. Bradshaw and Dr. McMillan give hands-on SNMMI webinar on AI
Dr. Bradshaw and Dr. McMillan gave a hands-on webinar demonstrating artificial intelligence applications for medical imaging. Attendees of the webinar participated in hands-on learning activities to develop and test a classification model to determine the …
April 14, 2020Dr. McMillan gives Educational SNMMI Webinar on AI
Dr. McMillan gave an SNMMI webinar entitled “Introduction to AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (DL), with focus on DL Methods and Architectures” for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. This was an …
April 7, 20202020 SNMMI Abstracts Accepted
Congratulations to MIMRTL team members Sam, Weijie, and Matthew on their acceptance of their SNMMI Abstract Submissions! Chen W, McMillan AB. (2020). Single Subject Deep Learning-based Partial Volume Correction for PET using Simulated Data and …
April 6, 2020Congratulations Bahar Behzadnezhad, PhD!
Congratulations to MIMRTL Graduate Student, Bahar Behzadnezhad for successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled “Conformal and Flexible MRI Coils for Improved SNR.” After graduation, Dr. Behzadnezhad has obtained a position with Apple. Congrats Bahar!
February 19, 2020Dr. McMillan speaks at EANM
Dr. McMillan participated in the Pre-Congress Symposium entitled “Advances in Image Processing Techniques” organized by the Physics + Dosimetry Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain on October …
October 12, 2019Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity
This position is currently filled. MIMRTL is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team! Description: A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology at the University of …
April 29, 2019Join us in Madison for the UW+GE MRI Programming Workshop in August 2019
Dr. McMillan is one of the organizers and instructors of the GE Healthcare Magnetic Resonance Imaging Programming (MRI) Workshop. Going into its 6th year, this workshop is designed for beginners to learn how to use the …
April 9, 20192019 SNMMI Abstracts Accepted!
Congrats to the team for success on Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) abstract submissions. These abstracts will be preseted as poster or oral presentations at the 2019 SNMMI meeting in Anaheim, California. …
March 29, 2019New publication in Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Team members Fang and Alan along with collaborators from the Department of Human Oncology recently published an article in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics entitled “MR‐based treatment planning in radiation therapy using a …
March 12, 2019New publication in IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology
Team members from MIMRTL (Bahar, Jake, Sam, Bruce, Alan) recently published an article in the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology entitled “Subject-specific, Non-invasive Helmet-restraint RF Coil for Awake, Non-human …
March 7, 20192019 ISMRM Abstracts Accepted!
Congrats to the team for 100% success on ISMRM abstract submissions. This includes Bahar (2x) for her abstracts “Rapid Material Characterization For 3D-printed MRI Coils: A Deep Learning Approach” and “Traveling-Wave Excitation for Electron Paramagnetic …
February 8, 2019SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting and Deep Learning in Nuclear Medicine
Dr. McMillan gave an educational presentation at the 2019 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Mid-Winter Meeting in Palm Springs, California on January 19th 2019. The talk, entitled “What is Machine Learning? What …
January 19, 2019Alan McMillan, PhD, Appointed to Radiology Editorial Board
Alan McMillan, PhD, was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Radiology, as an Associate Editor in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics. New members of the Editorial board are peer reviewers …
December 17, 2018Dr. McMillan Awarded NIH Grant for Deep Learning MR Research to Improve Substitute CT Generation for PET/MR and MR-based Radiation Treatment Planning
Alan McMillan, PhD, an Associate Professor of Clinical Health Sciences in the UW Department of Radiology, was recently awarded a four-year, $1.84 million grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) …
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