# Using cellprofiler in place of diameterJ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous\ **Created:** [November 11, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.allencell.org/t/using-cellprofiler-in-place-of-diameterj/148 "2019-11-11T11:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amycaitriona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@amycaitriona](https://forum.allencell.org/u/amycaitriona)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.allencell.org/t/using-cellprofiler-in-place-of-diameterj/148/1 "2019-11-11T11:06:23Z")
Does anyone know if using something like the analyse skeleton option on the cellprofiler pipeline can provide the same results as diameterJ on imageJ? I am quantifying vascular networks in 3D and to get density, branching etc I can get using cellprofiler, it would be nice to get all data sets from the same pipeline. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jianxu\_chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@jianxu\_chen](https://forum.allencell.org/u/jianxu_chen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.allencell.org/t/using-cellprofiler-in-place-of-diameterj/148/2 "2019-11-13T00:47:16Z")
i agree with you that if would be great to have all steps in a single workflow. to do this, i have used our segmenter to do some skeleton analysis on our data, e.g, tight junction. the tool i used together with segmenter is a python packa ge called skan. [https://jni.github.io/skan/index.html](https://jni.github.io/skan/index.html) hope that could be useful for you. @amycaitriona ---
**Author:** ![jianxu\_chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@jianxu\_chen](https://forum.allencell.org/u/jianxu_chen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.allencell.org/t/using-cellprofiler-in-place-of-diameterj/148/3 "2019-11-13T00:48:22Z")
let me know if there is any other question we ca help.