Application of higher order statistics for atrial arrhythmia classification.

Highlights: [•] Paper compares the classification performance of normal, AF and AFL. [•] HOS cumulant and bispectrum methods are compared. [•] ICA coupled with KNN performed better. [•] It provided 99.50% accuracy and 100% sensitivity. [•] System has potential applications in cardiovascular screening and diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]