Our Mission
Enable latest AI technology for our partners in industry and clinical research
Outside the university, research projects are often tied to the goodwill and innovative strength of entrepreneurs and decision-makers. A major obstacle can also be the proper setup of a suitable project infrastructure. Especially in the field of AI research, large computing capacities and solid data management are of utmost importance.
Our mission is to make Machine Learning and Deep Learning usable not only for companies, but also for research projects.
For this purpose, we offer our longterm project expertise as well as the necessary hardware and software.
Because we believe that innovations are created by supporting the advance of AI research projects that contribute to healthcare, economy, and society.
We are specialists in the development of innovative AI solutions for medical image processing and machine learning applications.
History
The idea for Chimaera was born during the PhD studies of the co-founders Dr. Marcus Prümmer, Dr. Dieter Hahn and Dr. Volker Daum together with their mentor and advisor Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger. Based on their longtearm experience in machine learning research, they recognized the challenges of developing the right software tools and services for artificial intelligence projects already ten years ago. The experience has been extended also to annotating and curating training data for AI projects.
Starting with customized software development, Chimaera's portfolio expanded steadily. Today, Chimaera is certified according to DIN EN ISO 13485 and a reliable partner for research, industry and medium-sized businesses. Our team of experts in image processing, AI and hardware optimization creates customized solutions for a wide range of use cases.
As a research-oriented high-tech company, we are in constant exchange with the important specialists in the current research landscape. This enables Chimaera to draw on the latest expertise from research practice and adapt it for its customers. We maintain close contacts with our alma mater, the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, but also with our contacts in the international research scene.
Chimaera Timeline
Milestones in our company history
2024
Distributed processing
The Chimaera SDK now includes built-in features for remote processing (Docker, Kubernetes,…)
2023
Commercial SDK use
The Chimaera SDK is increasingly being used by customers for various applications.
2022
New website and AI services
Complete rework of website and new AI Services for small and medium businesses
2021
10 Years ISO 13485
We have successfully improved
and maintained our QMS for 10 years
2021
Chimaera AI Building Blocks
Enabling AI with tailored Software,
Infrastructure and Services
2020
Chimaera Annotation Client
The new stand-alone annotation
tool for images
2018
Chimaera SDK
Our framework for image
processing and app development
2015
Company Relocation
We moved from Effeltrich to
Erlangen
2011
ISO
Certification
Certification of
ISO 13485 and ISO 9001
2007
Company
Foundation
From an idea at the
University FAU to a high tech startup
Team
Become part of our team
From researcher to researcher – at eye level, that's Chimaera. We are looking for ambitious young professionals so that we can continue to work on cutting-edge technology.
You don't do just "something with AI" – you develop sustainable and applicable AI projects for research and industry!
Checkout current positions:
Management
From researcher to researcher – at eye level, that's Chimaera. Both in our projects and within our company, we work to the highest quality standards. Through our own experience, we know the requirements of our customers very well and meet them as sparring partners and consultants at eye level.
We treat our employees in the same way. Everybody has his special field, but a strong team achieves more than the sum of the individual performances.
Dr.-Ing. Volker Daum
After completing his university degree (with honours), Volker was with the Fraunhofer IIS until starting his PhD, financed by a grant from the international Max-Planck research school (IMPRS) for optics and photonics. In his doctoral thesis, his research was focusing on non-rigid image registration problems for multi-modal medical images.
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg – Computer Science: focus on numerical methods and hardware optimization
- Visited the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah – worked there as a research assistant on a project for large scale numerical simulation
Dr.-Ing. Dieter Hahn
Dieter studied Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and made his diploma in cooperation with Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA. During his time at the Pattern Recognition Lab of the FAU, he was teaching exercises for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision with applications in Augmented Reality. He was also head of the Image Registration and Time-of-Flight Group.
- Obtained his PhD (with honours) on statistical similarity measures for medical image registration
- Diploma thesis in Computer Science (with honours) on feature-based image registration in cooperation with Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA
Dr.-Ing. Marcus Prümmer
While being a researcher at the FAU, Marcus was teaching exercises on Medical Image Processing at the Pattern Recognition Lab of the FAU. Between 2005-2010 he was head of the medical image processing group at the Pattern Recognition Lab, in 2009 he became Senior researcher. In cooperation with Siemens Healthcare he developed reconstruction algorithms for cardiac C-arm CT at Stanford University, Department of Radiology, Lucas Center, CA, USA.
- University of Mannheim – Computer Science: diploma thesis on vessel segmentation and analysis
- Freelancer for Siemens Healthcare after his diploma thesis
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: PhD thesis on motion estimation and compensation for cardiac C-arm CT reconstruction
Advisory Board
On the pulse of research:
As a research-oriented high-tech company, we are in constant exchange with research groups and specialists in the current research landscape. This enables Chimaera to draw on the latest expertise from research practice and adapt it for its customers.
We maintain close contacts with our alma mater, the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, but also with our contacts in the international research scene.
This also involves researchers and clinicians at a number of renowned institutions and university hospitals.
Achim is currently the President of Germany's most innovative university – the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg – and passionate to drive innovation and to better harness the potential of FAU's full research spectrum. While being the head of FAU's Pattern Recognition Lab, he co-founded Chimaera together with Volker, Dieter and Marcus.
Development Team
Our development team consists of experienced people with appropriate academic backgrounds in computer science, computational engineering, software development and project management.
Knowledge here ranges from standard programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Python, CMake, Shell, Batch, JavaScript, Java) to specialized hardware programming (e.g. Cuda, OpenGL, OpenCL).
Annotation Experts
We employ our own annotation experts who are highly trained in using our customized annotation software.
Through extensive project experience, this allows us to handle annotation tasks in a wide variety of healthcare and industry settings.
Sales and Marketing
Our competent sales team will be happy to answer your inquiries about services or the use of our products, quotes, or licensing options.
Contact us via this website or send an email at: sales(at)chimaera.de
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