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Road extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images has long been a focal and challenging research topic in the field of computer vision. Accurate extraction of road networks holds extensive practical value in various fields, such as urban planning, traffic monitoring, disaster response and environmental monitoring. With rapid development in the field of computational intelligence, particularly breakthroughs in deep learning technology, road extraction technology has made significant progress and innovation. This paper provides a systematic review of deep learning-based methods for road extraction from remote sensing images, focusing on analyzing the application of computational intelligence technologies in improving the precision and efficiency of road extraction. According to the type of annotated data, deep learning-based methods are categorized into fully supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, and unsupervised learning approaches, each further divided into more specific subcategories. They are comparatively analyzed based on their principles, advantages, and limitations. Additionally, this review summarizes the metrics used to evaluate the performance of road extraction models and the high-resolution remote sensing image datasets applied for road extraction. Finally, we discuss the main challenges and prospects for leveraging computational intelligence techniques to enhance the precision, automation, and intelligence of road network extraction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pansharpening task is to fuse low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) images and high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) images to generate high-resolution multispectral images. Most of the existing methods do not preserve spatial and spectral details well, which is due to ignoring the difference in resolution between the two images. To address this issue, we propose a novel fusion network (ESAFormer) that effectively enhances the spatial and spectral information representation. In the proposed model, a hybrid multiresolution structure of CNN and Transformer is deployed to allow the features of LRMS images and PAN images to fuse progressively. Subsequently, the enhanced spatial attention module is adopted to preserve spatial details and long-range information. Extensive experimental results indicate that the proposed method is superior to existing SOTA methods on World-View2 and IKONOS datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current CNN-based methods for infrared and visible image fusion are limited by the low discrimination of extracted structural features, the adoption of uniform loss functions, and the lack of inter-modal feature interaction, which make it difficult to obtain optimal fusion results. To alleviate the above problems, a framework for multimodal feature learning fusion using a cross-attention Transformer is proposed. To extract rich structural features at different scales, residual U-Nets with mixed receptive fields are adopted to capture salient object information at various granularities. Then, a hybrid attention fusion strategy is employed to integrate the complementing information from the input images. Finally, adaptive loss functions are designed to achieve optimal fusion results for different modal features. The fusion framework proposed in this study is thoroughly evaluated using the TNO, FLIR, and LLVIP datasets, encompassing diverse scenes and varying illumination conditions. In the comparative experiments, HATF achieved competitive results on three datasets, with EN, SD, MI, and SSIM metrics reaching the best performance on the TNO dataset, surpassing the second-best method by 2.3%, 18.8%, 4.2%, and 2.2%, respectively. These results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of both robustness and image fusion quality compared to several popular methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to recover geometric transformations is one of the most challenging issues in image registration. To alleviate the effect of large geometric distortion in multimodal remote sensing image registration, a scale and rotate transform prediction net is proposed in this paper. First, to reduce the scale between the reference and sensed images, the image scale regression module is constructed via CNN feature extraction and FFT correlation, and the scale of sensed image can be recovered roughly. Second, the rotation estimate module is developed for predicting the rotation angles between the reference and the scale-recovered images. Finally, to obtain the accurate registration results, LoFTR is employed to match the geometric-recovered images. The proposed registration network was evaluated on GoogleEarth, HRMS, VIS-NIR and UAV datasets with contrast differences and geometric distortions. The experimental results show that the number of correct matches of our model reached 74.6%, and the RMSE of the registration results achieved 1.236, which is superior to the related methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common nosocomial infection in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU), leading to prolonged stay in the ICU, increased hospital costs, and mortality. This study aimed to compare the effect of using normal saline with eucalyptus in endotracheal suctioning on the rate of ventilator-dependent pneumonia. For this purpose, a randomized clinical trial study was performed on 120 patients under a ventilator in the hospital ICU. Patients were randomly divided into control and intervention groups. The control group consisted of 60 patients who used 0.9% normal saline to dilute endotracheal secretions. The intervention group also included 60 patients treated with 0.9% normal saline with 5% eucalyptus to dilute endotracheal secretions. The sensitivity of isolated microbes was determined by the diffusion susceptibility test Kirby-Bauer disk protocol. The CDC protocol was used to diagnose VAP. 100 CFU/ml of endotracheal aspiration was considered the differentiation number between the microbe responsible for VAP and colonization. Whenever a VAP guess was made, a blood culture was done. Finally, the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the two groups was compared. The results showed that the incidence of VAP during using normal saline and normal saline with eucalyptus as a diluent for pulmonary secretions was different between the two groups (P = 0.042). Also, among infected patients with VAP, there was a difference between the types of microorganisms in the two groups (P = 0.019). Seven cases of Klebsiella pneumonia were observed in the control group, while no case of this bacterium was observed in the intervention group. In terms of the prevalence of Pseudomonas (two cases), both groups had a similar situation. These findings can reassure nurses and the treatment team that they can use normal saline solution with 5% eucalyptus during suction to dilute pulmonary secretions.