People
Principal Investigator
Piotr Kijanka, D.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Received the B.Eng. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Automation and Robotics from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. The D.Sc. (habilitation) degree in the discipline of Biomedical Engineering was received on November 18, 2021.
I am currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering with the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics at AGH University. My areas of expertise include noninvasive shear wave-based elasticity measurement and imaging applications, acoustic radiation force methods, optical coherence elastography, and ultrasonic signal and image processing.
I have strong expertise in the analysis of viscoelastic material properties of soft tissues and extensive experience in signal and image processing of ultrasound and acoustic data. My research also involves numerical modeling and simulation of ultrasound guided-wave propagation in complex viscoelastic structures.
In my previous work, I developed advanced approaches for analyzing shear wave motion to obtain images of shear wave phase velocity using the Ultrasound Shear Elastography with Expanded Bandwidth (USEWEB) and Local Phase Velocity Imaging (LPVI) methods, which were highlighted among the best approaches in the Elastography Challenge at the 2024 IEEE UFFC Joint Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan (September 2024).
Postdoctoral Associates
Ramin Almasi, Ph.D.
Holds a Ph.D. in Computer science (University of Isfahan, 2022) and is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the AGH University of Krakow. His research focuses on biomedical image and signal processing, including deep learning for automatic microaneurysm detection in retinal OCT images; image registration for enhanced diagnostic capabilities; developing novel computational methods for Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) to non-invasively assess tissue viscoelastic properties. His specific work in SWE involves creating algorithms to improve the accuracy and precision of stiffness and attenuation measurements, which is vital for characterizing tissues like the liver.
PhD Students
Wiktor Jachym, M.Sc.
I am a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at AGH University of Krakow. My research focuses on the development of novel signal processing methods for biomedical data analysis, with the goal of enhancing the accuracy and interpretability of Shear Wave Elastography. I am actively engaged in the scientific community as a Council Member of the IEEE Ultrasonics Student Volunteer Council. Since December 2024, I have also held the position of Chairman of the Council of PhD Students at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow. Outside of academia, I am a passionate horse enthusiast, with a particular interest in carriage driving.
Alumni
- Mohammed Aziz Hajjej, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia, 2025
- Ali Aldalou, Khalifa University, Palestine, 2025
- Akarsh Seetharamaiah, University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), India, 2024
- Tsukasa Kadoguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2024
- Ren Kimura, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, 2024
- Anna Kopec, AGH University of Krakow, Poland, 2023
- Paul Thomas Muscat, University of Malta, Malta, 2022
- Mikolaj Stryja, AGH University of Krakow, Poland, 2021