iOS medical imaging
Medical scan data, parsed on device and rendered through a hand-built Metal pipeline.
DICOM Viewer Pro reads the file format hospitals actually export — DICOM — and renders the scan data it contains on an iPhone or iPad, with an interface built for moving through an image series rather than looking at a single frame.
Rendering runs on a custom GPU pipeline written against Metal, because medical imaging data is too large and too precision-sensitive to push through a general-purpose image view.
DICOM is a dense, decades-old format carrying both pixel data and clinical metadata. Parsing it correctly is a prerequisite before anything can be drawn at all.
Once parsed, a scan series is a stack of high-bit-depth images. Scrubbing through it has to stay smooth on mobile hardware, which rules out naive per-frame CPU conversion.
A Swift parser reads DICOM files directly, extracting the image data needed for display rather than depending on a server round trip.
Scan data is rendered through a GPU pipeline built on Metal, keeping display of high-bit-depth imaging responsive on device.
The SwiftUI interface is designed around navigating an image series — moving through slices is the primary interaction, not an afterthought.
Growth was driven through Apple Search Ads campaigns, targeting the specific professional intent that brings people looking for a DICOM viewer.
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