GalaxyMed — Dental Viewer
A full dental-imaging workstation in the browser — CBCT volumes, Curved MPR and Dental AI, with no desktop install.
How this started
GalaxyMed Dental Viewer is an AI-powered imaging workstation for DICOM and CBCT (cone-beam CT) — one of our flagship medical builds. It reads full dental volumes, reconstructs them in 3D and runs AI on top, as native desktop apps and a browser viewer. We build it as a long-term engineering partner.
Challenge
CBCT studies are huge, and clinicians need them fast — in 3D, with advanced reconstruction and AI assistance — ideally in a browser, without shipping heavy desktop software or giving up clinical accuracy. That combination is exactly where most viewers fall down.
Approach
We built a workstation, not a picture viewer. What the product ships:
- DICOM / CBCT streaming with progressive decoding — large volumes open fast.
- 3D volumetric reconstruction of the full scan, GPU-accelerated with CUDA.
- Curved MPR — reconstruction along the dental arch, the view clinicians plan on.
- Dental AI — automatic segmentation of teeth, mandible and airway, plus cephalometric landmark detection.
- Implant planning with virtual placement.
- Anywhere — native desktop apps (Windows & macOS) and a browser web viewer over one shared core.
The hard decision
The tempting path was a thin web viewer backed by a heavy server that did the 3D work and streamed back pictures. It would have shipped faster. We refused it: a clinician mid-plan can't wait on a round-trip for every rotation, and streamed frames lose the precision implant planning needs. So we did the harder thing — real volumetric rendering on the client, GPU-accelerated, sharing one core with the native desktop builds. Slower to build; the only version worth a clinician's trust.
A workstation, not a picture viewer
Most "web DICOM viewers" show you slices. A clinician planning an implant needs anatomy — in 3D, reconstructed the way they actually think about a jaw, fast enough to stay in flow. GalaxyMed is built to be exactly that: a full imaging workstation that happens to run in a browser tab.
The core is a real volumetric engine. Axial, coronal and sagittal views stay synchronized alongside an interactive 3D reconstruction, so moving in one plane moves them all. On top of that sit the modes that make it clinical:
- Reformat — straighten and align the volume before deeper analysis.
- Curved MPR — reconstruct along the dental arch, with panoramic and cross-sectional slices, adjustable step spacing and slab thickness, and canal tracing. This is the view implants are planned on.
- Dental AI — automatic segmentation of teeth, mandible and airway, plus cephalometric landmark detection.
- Saved state & STL — measurements, curves, rotations and segmentations persist with the case; the model exports to STL for CAD/CAM, surgical guides and 3D printing.
Why it was hard
CBCT studies are large and unforgiving. The viewer streams and decodes them progressively so work starts in seconds, does the heavy rendering on the GPU to keep interaction real-time, and ships from one shared core to both the browser and native desktop apps. None of it is allowed to be "close enough" — in medical imaging, a result that's subtly wrong is worse than one that's merely slow.
Under the hood
Progressive DICOM/CBCT streaming, GPU-accelerated volumetric rendering (WebGL/WASM in the browser, CUDA on desktop), and one shared core across the web viewer and native Windows/macOS apps.
Before / After
Before
Desktop-only install
After
Any browser, no install
Access
Before
Separate software
After
Built in
Curved MPR
Before
No
After
Any device
Read a case remotely
The Impact
Quantitative
Qualitative
Full CBCT volumes in the browser — 3D, no desktop install.
Curved MPR, AI segmentation and implant planning in one workstation.
GPU (CUDA) accelerated for real-time interaction on heavy scans.
It behaves like desktop imaging software that happens to open in a browser — the speed and the precision are there, with nothing to install.
GalaxyMed · Clinical software lead
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