HorliX/PHORLIX/PaxViewer

Since 2018, we have been maintaining HorliX, which are derived from OsiriX in the open source era. As the development environment provided by Apple changed, the following problems became apparent.

・It is extremely difficult to migrate to Metal because image rendering is strongly dependent on OpenGL.

・There are x86_64-based libraries, and it is difficult to migrate to arm CPU

Therefore, we started a completely new project that will be the successor to HorliX.

Therefore, PHORLIX is..

using Metal API only for graphics
targeted for arm64 architecture
etc…

HorliX is a DICOM viewer based on Horos and OsiriX.

The origin of HorliX is HorosJ which is a japanese version of Horos published in github.

One day air-h-128k-il, one of the contributors of HorosJ and Horos projects, changed his source codes in order to run HorosJ/Horos under full 64bit mode.

It was when HorliX came into the world.

Now HorliX has several features apart from Horos and/or OsiriX Lite:

• fully 64bit software including libralies
• unique UI (for example, ROI-color-rotation-UI)
• and so on

‘HorliX’ was named after not ony Horos and OsiriX but also ‘Horlicks’ , a female legendary race horse  in NZ.

Japanese site is here

PaxViewer is a browser-based DICOM viewer with simple PACS functionality.

Initially, it was a browser-based viewer using Orthanc as the backend, but because Cornerstone.js and VTK.js were so well-made, I thought, “If I implement my own PACS like Orthanc, wouldn’t it become a standalone application?” and began a major overhaul.
At the time of release, for ease of use, it’s in the form of a desktop application with an integrated server.

The application itself has a built-in server, eliminating the need for cumbersome deployment procedures.
It should feel as easy to use as any other application.