A spatial pooling strategies (SPS) for image quality assessment (IQA) is proposed, which obtain a weight map from local structural information (LSI) of the reference image. The reference image is first smoothed with a Gaussian kernel, and the LSI is extracted from the smoothed image. A weight map is derived from the LSI using a non-zero procedure. PSNR and SSIM obtained in the experiments show effectiveness of the proposed method for a wide range of image distortion types.