Piotr Augustyniak

Piotr Augustyniak was born in Krakow, Poland in 1965. He graduated with a degree in electronic engineering (1989), received his PhD degree in electronics (1995), and his DSc (habilitation) in automatics (2004) all from the Electrical Engineering Department AGH-University of Science and Technology, Krakow.

He has worked at the Institute of Automatics AGH-UST, Krakow, as research engineer since 1989. In 1995 he became an assistant-professor, and in 2007 became associate professor. He has worked as a research engineer at Aspel SA, the largest Polish manufacturer of ECG equipment. His scientific interests include hardware and software problems of biosignal processing, currently he is working on perceptual model of electrocardiogram and data-dependent signal representation. He prototyped four acquisition and analysis systems for electrocardiography, electrooculography and electroencephalography. He published three books on electrodiagnostic signal processing, over 110 journal and conference papers, and was a reviewer and program committee member of many international conferences.

Professor Augustyniak is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Society of Electrocardiology and of the Computers in Cardiology Society.

Publications

Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications
Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 430 pages.
The Internet and other technological developments are now playing increasing roles in consumer health and the delivery of health services. Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging...
Introduction
Introduction
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 10 pages.
This chapter summarizes new needs, new opportunities, new challenges, and new fields for development of innovative IT methods for permanent and ubiquitous cardiological...
Background 1: ECG Interpretation
Background 1: ECG Interpretation
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 61 pages.
This chapter briefly introduces the basic concepts of electrocardiography?the anatomy and physiology of the heart, highlighting the electrophysiological phenomena. This technical...
Background 2: Telemedical Solutions in Cardiac Diagnostics
Background 2: Telemedical Solutions in Cardiac Diagnostics
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 38 pages.
This chapter presents basic facts about the social impact and frequency of cardiovascular diseases in aging societies. Being the primary cause of mortality in developed...
Background 3: Databases in Cardiology
Background 3: Databases in Cardiology
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 35 pages.
This chapter defines the set of standard diagnostic parameters and metadata expected from cardiac examinations. Rest ECG, exercise ECG, and long-term recording techniques are...
General Idea of the Proposed System
General Idea of the Proposed System
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 10 pages.
After an introduction and three chapters highlighting the present state of the art in computerized electrocardiography (Chapter 2), methodological issues of medical and technical...
Investigations about the Distributions of Important Information in ECG Signals
Investigations about the Distributions of Important Information in ECG Signals
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 47 pages.
This chapter presents an investigation of the distribution of medically relevant information in ECG signal timelines. ECG records clearly represent a cycle of heart evolution;...
Optimization of ECG Procedures Chain for Reliability and Data Reduction
Optimization of ECG Procedures Chain for Reliability and Data Reduction
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 26 pages.
This chapter deals with various aspects of improvements in the typical ECG processing chain. Particular procedures designed for the computation of specified diagnostic results...
Interpretation of the ECG as a Web-Based Subscriber Service
Interpretation of the ECG as a Web-Based Subscriber Service
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 20 pages.
This chapter is about the idea of medical information interchange networks providing signal and possibly image interpretation services. Technically, the issue is similar to...
Dynamic Task Distribution in Mobile Client-Server Cooperation
Dynamic Task Distribution in Mobile Client-Server Cooperation
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 37 pages.
This chapter discusses the technical limitations of remote wearable recorders. These are caused mainly by high expectations of mobility and manifest themselves through short...
Optimization and Prioritization of Cardiac Messages
Optimization and Prioritization of Cardiac Messages
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 11 pages.
This chapter presents a proposal of medically justified modulations of the frequency of cardiac reporting, implemented in a client-server distant cooperation model. The...
Future Perspective: Data Validity-Driven Report Optimization
Future Perspective: Data Validity-Driven Report Optimization
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 17 pages.
This chapter first presents the description of a common approach to ECG interpretation triggering, assuming that the parameters are updated each time the input data is available....
Social Impact of Network-Based Ubiquitous Cardiac Surveillance
Social Impact of Network-Based Ubiquitous Cardiac Surveillance
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz. © 2009. 10 pages.
This chapter is a summary of the book and attempts to evaluate the social impact of the general idea of ubiquitous cardiology. The project discussed in the book is in fact...