Error mitigation enables PET radiomic cancer characterization on quantum computers.

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"Funding Open access funding provided by Medical University of Vienna. This project was funded by the Medical University of Vienna (MUV), Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering under the umbrella of the Focus-M-2022 grant “Quantum Image Analysis” (PI: L. Papp) at MUV."