Seoul St. Mary’s Launches 2.5 Billion-Won Quantum Blood-Flow Project for 95% CFD Accuracy
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Updated · KBR · Aug 25
Seoul St. Mary’s Launches 2.5 Billion-Won Quantum Blood-Flow Project for 95% CFD Accuracy
2 articles · Updated · KBR · Aug 25
Summary
2.5 billion won ($1.8 million) in government funding will back a 2026-2028 project using quantum computing to analyze cardiovascular blood flow for diagnosis and treatment planning.
The team will first build a quantum computational fluid dynamics model for atrial fibrillation, reconstructing the heart, left atrium and aorta from CT scans to calculate flow velocity, pressure and vessel-wall forces.
4D Flow MRI data from actual patients will be used to validate the model, with the project targeting at least 95% of the accuracy of conventional CFD while testing whether quantum systems can outperform classical computing in clinics.
Current quantum hardware still suffers from noise and errors, so researchers will combine variational algorithms, Krylov subspace methods, classical shadow measurements and non-Markovian error mitigation to cut circuit complexity and measurement demands.
Seoul St. Mary’s will supply clinical data and validation, the University of Seoul will develop the quantum algorithms and performance metrics, and Flonics will check accuracy through its 4D Flow MRI-based analysis platform.