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Omar Ghattas
Associate Professor, CivE (Adjunct)

Associated center: MRTC

Email address: omar@cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Civil & Environmental Engineering
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Past Projects

High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery - High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery

Joint Replacement Biomechanics - Biomedical simulation of hip replacement

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Simulation, Planning, and Execution of Computer-Assisted Surgery
  T. Kanade, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, O. Ghattas, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, L. Kallivokas, F. Morgan, S. Shah, and D. Simon
  Proceedings of the NSF Grand Challenges Workshop, March, 1996.
  Download: pdf [108 KB], ps.gz [27 KB] copyrighted

• Biomechanics-Based Preoperative Planning In THR - Application Of Fictitious Domain Method
  L.F. Kallivokas, B. Jaramaz, O. Ghattas, S.V. Shah, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Advances in Bioengineering, ASME, BED, Vol. 33, 1996, pp. 389-390.
  Download: pdf [61 KB] copyrighted

• Towards More Capable and Less Invasive Robotic Surgery in Orthopaedics
  R. O'Toole, D. Simon, B. Jaramaz, O. Ghattas, M. Blackwell, L. Kallivokas, F. Morgan, C. Visnic, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine (CVRMed '95), April, 1995.
  Download: pdf [103 KB], ps.gz [30 KB] copyrighted

• Press Fit Femoral Implants Yield High Assembly Strains In Cortical Bone.
  R.H. Reid, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, and O. Ghattas
  Proceedings of the 1995 ASME Bioengineering Conference, BED, Vol. 29, 1995, pp. 561.

• The Fictitious Domain Method For Patient-Specific Biomechanical Modeling: Promise And Prospects
  S.V. Shah, L.F. Kallivokas, B. Jaramaz, O. Ghattas, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 1995, pp. 329.
  Download: pdf [102 KB], ps.gz [147 KB] copyrighted

• Finite Element Pre-operative Simulation Of Cementless Hip Replacement
  C.D. Visnic, R.H. Reid, O. Ghattas, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and B. Jaramaz
  Proceedings Simulation Conference, December, 1994, pp. 856 - 860. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [432 KB] copyrighted

• A Separator-Based Framework for Automated Partitioning and Mapping of Parallel Algorithms for Numerical Solution of PDEs
  E.J. Schwabe, G.E. Blelloch, A. Feldmann, O. Ghattas, J.R. Gilbert, G.L. Miller, D.R. O'Hallaron, J.R. Shewchuk, and S. Teng
  Proceedings of the 1992 DAGS / PC Symposium, June, 1992, pp. 48 - 62. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [421 KB], ps.gz [308 KB] copyrighted