OpenRadView

What makes it different

OpenRadView began as a personal project by its maker, Gyorgy, who lost his mother recently and says she is the reason he started experimenting with it. After a CT, MRI or X-ray, a radiologist reads the images and you get a written report — but the images often come home too, on a CD or as a zip. Many discs include a viewer, but it usually runs only on Windows, so on a Mac you are left with files you cannot open. OpenRadView is for people who want to see their own images anyway.

Point it at the disc, the zip or a folder, and it opens the DICOM or NIfTI files on your computer: linked axial, coronal and sagittal views, oblique planes, experimental 3D, and distance and angle measurements. There is no account, no telemetry, and no upload. It is free and open source, written in Rust with egui and wgpu, so images render on the GPU — with Metal acceleration on Apple Silicon, and support for Windows and Linux with a dedicated GPU too.

There is deliberately no AI inside. If you want, an agent you already use, or a local model, can connect over MCP and ask to see a view — but nothing is shared until you allow it, and the maker warns that an agent's replies can be wrong. OpenRadView is a personal research project, not certified medical software: if something feels wrong, see a doctor and ask a clinician to interpret your scans. As its maker puts it, it is an app he hopes you never need.