# Can I use other packages like openCV and scikitimage along with simpleitk ?

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**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/can-i-use-other-packages-like-opencv-and-scikitimage-along-with-simpleitk/3343 "2020-07-29T11:18:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![unicorn](https://discourse.itk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/35a633/32.png) [@unicorn](https://discourse.itk.org/u/unicorn)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/can-i-use-other-packages-like-opencv-and-scikitimage-along-with-simpleitk/3343/1 "2020-07-29T11:18:55Z")

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How can I use other packages like openCV and scikitimage along with simpleitk?  
When dealing with 2D slices, I want to implement few algorithms like houghtransform etc .

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**Author:** ![zivy](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/zivy/32/1726_2.png) [@zivy](https://discourse.itk.org/u/zivy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/can-i-use-other-packages-like-opencv-and-scikitimage-along-with-simpleitk/3343/2 "2020-07-29T12:44:53Z")

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Hello @unicorn,

This is easily done via numpy arrays. Please see [this Jupyter notebook](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/SimpleITK-Notebooks/blob/master/Python/03_Image_Details.ipynb) section titled “Conversion between numpy and SimpleITK”.