  During the last decades, the research community of medical imaging has
witnessed continuous advances in image registration methods, which pushed the
limits of the state-of-the-art and enabled the development of novel medical
procedures. A particular type of image registration problem, known as
slice-to-volume registration, played a fundamental role in areas like image
guided surgeries and volumetric image reconstruction. However, to date, and
despite the extensive literature available on this topic, no survey has been
written to discuss this challenging problem. This paper introduces the first
comprehensive survey of the literature about slice-to-volume registration,
presenting a categorical study of the algorithms according to an ad-hoc
taxonomy and analyzing advantages and disadvantages of every category. We draw
some general conclusions from this analysis and present our perspectives on the
future of the field.
