Adobe Illustator script: Creates an artboard for each selected image with the name of the imageFile and its size on the canvas

CreateArtboardsForSelectedImages.jsx

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="CreateArtboardsForSelectedImages.jsx" company="Supyrb">
//   Copyright (c) 2018 Supyrb. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
// <author>
//   Johannes Deml
//   send@johannesdeml.com
// </author>
// <summary>
//   Creates an artboard for each selected image with the name of the imageFile and its size on the canvas.
//   Works only if the image file still exists for the defined path.
// </summary>
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

if (app.documents.length > 0) {
	
	var selectedItems = app.activeDocument.selection;
	for(var i = 0; i < selectedItems.length; i++) {
		var item = selectedItems[i];
		var itemtype = item.typename;
		
		// Only support RasterItem and PlacedItem
		if(itemtype != "RasterItem" && itemtype != "PlacedItem") {
			alert(itemtype);
			continue;
		}
		
		var filename = itemtype + "ArtBoard";
		try {
			filename = item.file.name;
			filename = filename.substr(0, filename.lastIndexOf("."));
		}
		catch(e) {
			// File does not exist
			// TODO: Get name otherwise
		}
		var artboard = app.activeDocument.artboards.add (item.geometricBounds);
		artboard.name = filename;
	}
}
else {
	alert('Open a document before running this script', 'Error running CreateArtboardsForSelectedImages.jsx');
}

Just save the file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC YEAR\Presets\LOCALE\Scripts\Supyrb\CreateArtboardsForSelectedImages.jsx

After restarting illustrator you will get this:

For more info on how to setup scripts in adobe illustrator check out this page: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator/scripting.html
Adobe Forum entry: https://forums.adobe.com/message/10290691#10290691