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High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery (Hippocrates)
This project is no longer active.
Head: Omar Ghattas
Mailing address:
MRT Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
(412) 268 6553 (Jim Osborn, Executive Director)
(412) 268 6436 (FAX)
Associated center: MRTC
Associated lab/group: Computational Mechanics Laboratory
For more information, see this project's homepage.
Hippocrates is a new joint effort between roboticists, computational mechanicists, and computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, and surgeons and bioengineers at Shadyside Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Its goal is to develop advanced planning, simulation, and execution technologies for the next generation of computer-assisted surgical robots. Because of the significant computational requirements presented by each of these tasks, high performance computing is essential to realizing the great promise of robot-assisted surgery.