Event Speaker

Alan B. McMillan, PhD

Professor

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alan B. McMillan, PhD, is a Professor of Clinical Health Sciences within the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has affiliate appointments in the Department of Medical Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. He is currently the Lab Director of the Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Lab (MIMRTL), where the team’s focus is to integrate advanced modeling, data science, and physics-based approaches to improve medical imaging, particular for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography). The group has a large focus on the development, application, and evaluation of artificial intelligence methods in medical imaging.

Sessions

How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab

Presented by John Garrett, PhD, Richard J. Bruce, MD, Alan B. McMillan, PhD, Chris Burt , Jameson Merkow, PhD, Ivan Tarapov, MSc , Joshua Warner, MD, PhD Jun 10, 2026 | 10:00 AM.

Foundation Models—including Vision-Language Models and Large Language Models—are rapidly reshaping what is possible in medical imaging. Yet many imaging informaticists, researchers, and developers find a disconnect between the promise described in the literature and what can realistically be implemented in clinical and research environments. Questions around practical use, efficient adaptation, and system-level integration remain major…