ISOGAL sources in intermediate bulge fields

In combination with near-infrared (I, J, Ks) data of DENIS survey, complemented by 2MASS data, we discuss the nature of the ISOGAL sources, their luminosities, the interstellar extinction and the mass-loss rates. A large fraction of the 1464 detected sources at 15{mu}m are AGB stars above the RGB tip, a number of them show an excess in ([7]-[15])_0_ and (Ks-[15])_0_ colours, characteristic of mass-loss.

The latter, especially (Ks-[15])_0_, provide estimates of the mass-loss rates and show their distribution in the range 10^-8^ to 10^-5^M_{sun}_/yr.